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CENTRISCIDAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Synonyms:
Centriscidae; family Centriscidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Centriscidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Centriscidae"):
shrimp-fish; shrimpfish (slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates)
Holonyms ("Centriscidae" is a member of...):
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)