ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES

 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Pleuronectiformes mean? 

• ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES (noun)
  The noun ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES has 1 sense:

1. flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

  Familiarity information: ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES (noun)

Meaning:

Flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Heterosomata; order Heterosomata; order Pleuronectiformes

Hypernyms ("order Pleuronectiformes" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Pleuronectiformes"):

flatfish (any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side)

family Pleuronectidae; Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders)

Bothidae; family Bothidae (a family of fish of the order Heterosomata)

Cynoglossidae; family Cynoglossidae (tonguefishes)

family Soleidae; Soleidae (soles)

Holonyms ("order Pleuronectiformes" is a member of...):

Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)