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DEVILFISH
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Irregular inflected form: devilfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("devilfish" is a kind of...):
ray (cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devilfish"):
Atlantic manta; Manta birostris (largest manta (to 22 feet across wings); found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States; primarily oceanic)
devil ray; Mobula hypostoma (small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools)
Holonyms ("devilfish" is a member of...):
family Mobulidae; Mobulidae (large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
Synonyms:
devilfish; octopus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("devilfish" is a kind of...):
octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)
Meronyms (parts of "devilfish"):
octopus (tentacles of octopus prepared as food)
Holonyms ("devilfish" is a member of...):
genus Octopus (type genus of the family Octopodidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
Synonyms:
devilfish; Eschrichtius gibbosus; Eschrichtius robustus; gray whale; grey whale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("devilfish" is a kind of...):
baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)
Holonyms ("devilfish" is a member of...):
Eschrichtius; genus Eschrichtius (type and sole genus of the Eschrichtiidae)
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