family cestidae

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   coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body

   SynonymsCestidae

   Broaderctenophore family

   Part ofCestida

Questions about family cestidae

What does family cestidae mean?

family cestidae means "coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body".

What is another word for family cestidae?

Close synonyms include Cestidae. 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 family cestidae a common word?

family cestidae 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.