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FAMILY SYNGNATHIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pipefishes
Synonyms:
family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Syngnathidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Syngnathidae"):
needlefish; pipefish (fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)
genus Syngnathus; Syngnathus (type genus of the family Syngnathidae)
Cosmocampus; genus Cosmocampus (a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae)
genus Hippocampus; Hippocampus (seahorses)
Holonyms ("family Syngnathidae" is a member of...):
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)
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