FAMILY MACROURIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Grenadiers

Synonyms:

family Macrouridae; family Macruridae; Macrouridae; Macruridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Macrouridae"):

grenadier; rattail; rattail fish (deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail)

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

Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)