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SILURIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
Synonyms:
order Siluriformes; Siluriformes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Siluriformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Siluriformes"):
catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)
family Siluridae; Siluridae (Old World catfishes)
Ameiuridae; family Ameiuridae (North American catfishes)
family Laricariidae; Laricariidae (armored catfish)
Ariidae; family Ariidae (sea catfishes)
Holonyms ("Siluriformes" is a member of...):
Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)
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