ORDER HETEROSOMATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Heterosomata mean? 

• ORDER HETEROSOMATA (noun)
  The noun ORDER HETEROSOMATA has 1 sense:

1. flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

  Familiarity information: ORDER HETEROSOMATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER HETEROSOMATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Heterosomata; order Heterosomata; order Pleuronectiformes

Hypernyms ("order Heterosomata" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Heterosomata"):

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)

family Pleuronectidae; Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders)

Bothidae; family Bothidae (a family of fish of the order Heterosomata)

Cynoglossidae; family Cynoglossidae (tonguefishes)

family Soleidae; Soleidae (soles)

Holonyms ("order Heterosomata" is a member of...):

Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)