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FAMILY CYPRINODONTIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
Synonyms:
Cyprinodontidae; family Cyprinodontidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cyprinodontidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Cyprinodontidae"):
cyprinodont (any member of the family Cyprinodontidae)
Fundulus; genus Fundulus; genus Rivulus (killifish)
genus Jordanella; Jordanella (flagfishes)
genus Xyphophorus; Xyphophorus (swordtails)
genus Lebistes; Lebistes (guppies)
Holonyms ("family Cyprinodontidae" 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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