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OGCOCEPHALIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Ogcocephalidae mean?

• OGCOCEPHALIDAE (noun)
The noun OGCOCEPHALIDAE has 1 sense:

1. batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes

Familiarity information: OGCOCEPHALIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OGCOCEPHALIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Ogcocephalidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae

Hypernyms ("Ogcocephalidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Ogcocephalidae"):

batfish (bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins)

Holonyms ("Ogcocephalidae" is a member of...):

order Pediculati; Pediculati (anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth)

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