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SCORPAENOIDEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards
Synonyms:
Scorpaenoidea; suborder Scorpaenoidea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Scorpaenoidea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Scorpaenoidea"):
family Ophiodontidae; Ophiodontidae (fishes closely related to greenlings)
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Cottidae; family Cottidae (sculpins)
Cyclopteridae; family Cyclopteridae (lumpfishes)
family Liparidae; family Liparididae; Liparidae; Liparididae (snailfishes)
family Platycephalidae; Platycephalidae (scorpaenoid flatheads)
family Triglidae; Triglidae (in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins))
Holonyms ("Scorpaenoidea" is a member of...):
Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)
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