characidae

1. 1.

   tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America

   Synonymsfamily Characidae

   Broaderfish family

   Part ofCypriniformes

Other forms of characidae

plural

characidaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about characidae

What does characidae mean?

characidae means "tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America".

How many syllables are in characidae?

characidae has 4 syllables: cha-ra-ci-dae. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for characidae?

Close synonyms include family Characidae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is characidae a common word?

characidae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.