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SNAKEFISH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Synonyms:
lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("snakefish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Holonyms ("snakefish" is a member of...):
family Synodontidae; Synodontidae (soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes)