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FAMILY CLINIDAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas
Synonyms:
Clinidae; family Clinidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Clinidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Clinidae"):
clinid; clinid fish (mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds)
Chaenopsis; genus Chaenopsis (a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies)
Holonyms ("family Clinidae" is a member of...):
Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)