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Tetraodontidae

noun

puffers

• Syn: ↑family Tetraodontidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plectognathi, ↑order Plectognathi, ↑order Tetraodontiformes

• Member Meronyms: ↑puffer, ↑pufferfish, ↑blowfish, ↑globefish

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\\ˌte.trəōˈdäntəˌdē, -rēō-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tetraodont-, Tetraodon, type genus + -idae

: a family of tropical marine fishes comprising the puffers and with the ocean sunfishes and a few other related forms constituting a distinct suborder of the Plectognathi — see globefish

Useful english dictionary. 2012.