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BATFISH
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Irregular inflected form: batfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("batfish" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Holonyms ("batfish" is a member of...):
family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae (batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes)
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