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FAMILY CATOSTOMIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
Synonyms:
Catostomidae; family Catostomidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Catostomidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Catostomidae"):
catostomid (a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae)
sucker (mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps)
Catostomus; genus Catostomus (type genus of the family Catostomidae)
genus Ictiobus; Ictiobus (buffalo fishes)
genus Hypentelium; Hypentelium; genus Maxostoma; Maxostoma (a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae)
Holonyms ("family Catostomidae" is a member of...):
Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)
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