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HOLOCENTRIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
Synonyms:
family Holocentridae; Holocentridae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Holocentridae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Holocentridae"):
genus Holocentrus; Holocentrus (type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes)
squirrelfish (very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark)
Holonyms ("Holocentridae" is a member of...):
Berycomorphi; order Berycomorphi (an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii)