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NEEDLEFISH
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Irregular inflected form: needlefishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
Synonyms:
needlefish; pipefish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("needlefish" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "needlefish"):
dwarf pipefish; Syngnathus hildebrandi (small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast)
Cosmocampus profundus; deepwater pipefish (a fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean)
sea horse; seahorse (small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position)
Holonyms ("needlefish" is a member of...):
family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae (pipefishes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("needlefish" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "needlefish"):
timucu (found in warm waters of western Atlantic)
Holonyms ("needlefish" is a member of...):
Belonidae; family Belonidae (ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars)
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