Noun | 1. | Pholidae - a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea fish family - any of various families of fish Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea - blennies; butterfishes; gunnels bracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic genus Pholis, Pholis - type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels |