LIZARDFISH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

Synonyms:

lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lizardfish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("lizardfish" is a member of...):

family Synodontidae; Synodontidae (soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes)