MALACOPTERYGIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malacopterygian mean? 

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

1. any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALACOPTERYGIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish

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

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Meronyms (members of "malacopterygian"):

whitebait (the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts)

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

tarpon; Tarpon atlanticus (large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida)

king of the herring; oarfish; Regalecus glesne; ribbonfish (thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin)

ribbonfish (marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body)

Lampris guttatus; New World opah (from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico)

Lampris regius; moonfish; opah (large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean)

handsaw fish (a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus)

lancet fish; lancetfish; wolffish (large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail)

greeneye (bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster)

lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish (tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide)

lanternfish (small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night)

argentine (any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes)

Albula vulpes; bonefish (slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons)

smelt (small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters)

whitefish (silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere)

salmonid (soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters)

anchovy (small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide)

clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish (fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand)

eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)

gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)

cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)

order Ostariophysi; Ostariophysi (in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes)

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

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