TONGUEFISH

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Meaning:

Left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value

Synonyms:

tongue-fish; tonguefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

flatfish (any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side)

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

Cynoglossidae; family Cynoglossidae (tonguefishes)

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