FAMILY SYNODONTIDAE

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Meaning:

Soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes

Synonyms:

family Synodontidae; Synodontidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Synodontidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Synodontidae"):

lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish (tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide)

Holonyms ("family Synodontidae" is a member of...):

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)