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DRIFTFISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("driftfish" is a kind of...):
butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)
Holonyms ("driftfish" is a member of...):
genus Psenes; Psenes (a genus of Stromateidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("driftfish" is a kind of...):
butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)
Holonyms ("driftfish" is a member of...):
Ariomma; genus Ariomma (a genus of Stromateidae)
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