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ANGUILLIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
Synonyms:
Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Anguilliformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Anguilliformes"):
eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)
Anguillidae; family Anguillidae (eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn)
family Muraenidae; Muraenidae; Congridae; family Congridae (marine eels)
Holonyms ("Anguilliformes" is a member of...):
Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)
