THREADFIN

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Meaning:

Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

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Nouns denoting animals

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

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "threadfin"):

barbu; Polydactylus virginicus (found along western Atlantic coast)

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

family Polynemidae; Polynemidae (threadfins)