Akademik

Ephippidae

noun

small family comprising the spadefishes

• Syn: ↑family Ephippidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi

• Member Meronyms: ↑Chaetodipterus, ↑genus Chaetodipterus

* * *

\\ə̇ˈfipəˌdē, eˈf-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Ephippus, type genus (from Greek ephippos on horseback, riding, from epi- + hippos horse) + -idae — more at equine

: a family of chiefly tropical percoid fishes comprising the spadefishes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.