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GENUS PHOLIS

• GENUS PHOLIS (noun)
The noun GENUS PHOLIS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels

Familiarity information: GENUS PHOLIS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS PHOLIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Pholis; Pholis

Hypernyms ("genus Pholis" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pholis"):

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel (slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters)

Holonyms ("genus Pholis" is a member of...):

family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae (a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea)

"When the cat's away, the mice will play."
(English proverb)
"Every frog must know its sole-leather."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away like a gazelle."
(Arabic proverb)
"Do not hide your light under a bushel"
(Danish proverb)

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