FAMILY BELONIDAE

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Meaning:

Ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars

Synonyms:

Belonidae; family Belonidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Belonidae"):

billfish; gar; needlefish (elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters)

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

order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)