Akademik

Mytilidae

noun

marine mussels

• Syn: ↑family Mytilidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑Mytilus, ↑genus Mytilus, ↑marine mussel, ↑mytilid

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\\mīˈtiləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a family of marine bivalve mollusks (order Filibranchia) having the shell elongated and equivalve with a large narrow internal ligament and a byssus for attachment to the substrate — compare mussel

Useful english dictionary. 2012.