family salpidae

English Thesaurus

1. a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	chordate family,
definition	:	any family in the phylum Chordata (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus salpa,
definition	:	type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	class thaliacea, thaliacea,
definition	:	small class of free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order (noun.animal)