PERCIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Perciformes mean? 

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

1. one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Perciformes"):

Ammodytidae; family Ammodytidae (sand lances)

family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)

family Mullidae; Mullidae (goatfishes or red mullets)

Mugiloidea; suborder Mugiloidea (fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae)

family Kyphosidae; Kyphosidae (sea chubs)

Ephippidae; family Ephippidae (small family comprising the spadefishes)

Chaetodontidae; family Chaetodontidae (butterfly fishes)

family Pomacentridae; Pomacentridae (damselfishes)

family Labridae; Labridae (wrasses)

family Scaridae; Scaridae (parrotfishes)

family Polynemidae; Polynemidae (threadfins)

family Opisthognathidae; Opisthognathidae (jawfishes)

family Uranoscopidae; Uranoscopidae (stargazers)

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

family Sparidae; Sparidae (porgies; scups)

Callionymidae; family Callionymidae (dragonets)

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae (gobies)

Eleotridae; family Eleotridae (sleepers)

family Percophidae; Percophidae (percoid flatheads)

family Toxotidae; Toxotidae (archerfishes)

family Microdesmidae; Microdesmidae (worm fish)

Acanthuridae; family Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes)

family Gempylidae; Gempylidae (snake mackerels)

family Trichiuridae; Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)

Scombroidea; suborder Scombroidea (mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes)

family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)

family Gobiesocidae; Gobiesocidae (clingfishes)

family Lobotidae; Lobotidae (tripletails)

family Gerreidae; family Gerridae; Gerreidae; Gerridae (mojarras)

family Haemulidae; Haemulidae (grunts)

Percoidea; suborder Percoidea (in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder)

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

perch (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes)

Anabantidae; family Anabantidae (small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia)

family Percidae; Percidae (active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches)

family Trichodontidae; Trichodontidae (two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud)

family Ophidiidae; Ophidiidae (eellike marine fishes)

Brotulidae; family Brotulidae (chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae)

Carapidae; family Carapidae (pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae)

Centropomidae; family Centropomidae (a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos)

Esocidae; family Esocidae (pikes; pickerels; muskellunges)

Centrarchidae; family Centrarchidae (sunfish family)

bream; freshwater bream (any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis)

family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)

Embiotocidae; family Embiotocidae (viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes)

family Priacanthidae; Priacanthidae (small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas)

Apogonidae; family Apogonidae (bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth)

family Malacanthidae; Malacanthidae (short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored)

family Pomatomidae; Pomatomidae (food and game fishes related to pompanos)

family Rachycentridae; Rachycentridae (family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia)

Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)

Coryphaenidae; family Coryphaenidae (large active pelagic percoid fish)

Bramidae; family Bramidae (deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas)

Branchiostegidae; family Branchiostegidae (small family of marine fishes having covered gills)

Cichlidae; family Cichlidae (cichlids)

family Lutjanidae; Lutjanidae (snappers)

bream; sea bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)

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

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