Akademik

Tridacnidae

noun

large marine hard-shell clams

• Syn: ↑family Tridacnidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bivalvia, ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Lamellibranchia, ↑class Pelecypoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑Tridacna, ↑genus Tridacna

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\\-nəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tridacna, type genus + -idae

: a small family of chiefly tropical thick-shelled marine bivalve mollusks (suborder Cardiacea) — see tridacna

Useful english dictionary. 2012.