Definition of Muraenidae

1. Noun. Marine eels.

Exact synonyms: Family Muraenidae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Anguilliformes, Order Anguilliformes, Order Apodes
Member holonyms: Moray, Moray Eel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muraenidae

Munsee
Munshiganj District
Munson's sign
Munster
Munster Irish
Muntenia
Muntiacus
Muntingia
Muntingia calabura
Muntz metal
Munukutuba
Munyarwand
Muppet
Muppets
Murad
Muraenidae
Murasugi sum
Murasugi sums
Murcia
Murcian
Murcians
Murdoch
Muriel
Muriel Sarah Spark
Muriel Spark
Murillo
Muritaniya
Murmansk
Muroidea
Murphy

Literary usage of Muraenidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The ovaries of the muraenidae are plate- like bands; of Salmonidae lamellate; in other Teleostei saccular, the ova being produced by a small lateral streak ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Some of the modifications introduced into the system are rather startling. The muraenidae, we are told, differ from the other ..."

3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The ovaries of the muraenidae are plate- like bands; of Salmonidae lamellate; in other Teleostei saccular, the ova being produced by a small lateral streak ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Some of the modifications introduced into the system are rather startling. The muraenidae, we are told, differ from the other ..."

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