BATFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: batfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

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

family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae (batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes)

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