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FAMILY TETRAODONTIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Puffers
Synonyms:
family Tetraodontidae; Tetraodontidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Tetraodontidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Tetraodontidae"):
blowfish; globefish; puffer; pufferfish (any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers)
Holonyms ("family Tetraodontidae" is a member of...):
order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)
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