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FAMILY BLENNIIDAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A family of fish including: combtooth blennies
Synonyms:
Blenniidae; family Blenniidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Blenniidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Blenniidae"):
blenny; combtooth blenny (small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks)
Blennius; genus Blennius (type genus of the Blenniidae)
genus Scartella; Scartella (a genus of Blenniidae)
Holonyms ("family Blenniidae" is a member of...):
Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)