FAMILY BALISTIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Triggerfishes

Synonyms:

Balistidae; family Balistidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Balistidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Balistidae"):

triggerfish (any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin)

Balistes; genus Balistes (type genus of the Balistidae)

filefish (narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine)

Holonyms ("family Balistidae" is a member of...):

order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)