ISOSPONDYLI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Isospondyli mean? 

• ISOSPONDYLI (noun)
  The noun ISOSPONDYLI has 1 sense:

1. most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon

  Familiarity information: ISOSPONDYLI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISOSPONDYLI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Isospondyli"):

family Gonorhynchidae; Gonorhynchidae (coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus)

Clupeidae; family Clupeidae (herrings; shad; sardines; etc.)

Engraulidae; family Engraulidae (anchovies)

family Salmonidae; Salmonidae (salmon and trout)

Coregonidae; family Coregonidae (soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae)

family Osmeridae; Osmeridae (smelts)

Elopidae; family Elopidae (tarpons and ladyfishes)

Albulidae; family Albulidae (bonefish)

Argentinidae; family Argentinidae (small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts)

family Myctophidae; Myctophidae (deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes)

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

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)