family characidae

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   tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America

   SynonymsCharacidae

   Broaderfish family

   Part ofCypriniformes

Questions about family characidae

What does family characidae mean?

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

What is another word for family characidae?

Close synonyms include 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 family characidae a common word?

family 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.