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FAMILY OGCOCEPHALIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes
Synonyms:
family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Ogcocephalidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Ogcocephalidae"):
batfish (bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins)
Holonyms ("family Ogcocephalidae" 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)
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