Dictionary entry details
• MALACOPTERYGIAN (noun)
Meaning:
Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish
Hypernyms ("malacopterygian" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Meronyms (members of "malacopterygian"):
whitebait (the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malacopterygian"):
king of the herring; oarfish; Regalecus glesne; ribbonfish (thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin)
Albula vulpes; bonefish (slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons)
argentine (any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes)
lanternfish (small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night)
lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish (tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide)
greeneye (bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster)
lancet fish; lancetfish; wolffish (large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail)
handsaw fish (a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus)
Lampris regius; moonfish; opah (large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean)
Lampris guttatus; New World opah (from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico)
ribbonfish (marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body)
tarpon; Tarpon atlanticus (large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida)
smelt (small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters)
order Ostariophysi; Ostariophysi (in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes)
cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)
catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)
gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)
eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)
beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish (fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand)
clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
anchovy (small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide)
salmonid (soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters)
whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)
Holonyms ("malacopterygian" is a member of...):
Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)
