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FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers
Synonyms:
Antennariidae; family Antennariidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Antennariidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Antennariidae"):
frogfish (fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout)
sargassum fish (small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum)
Holonyms ("family Antennariidae" 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)