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ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced

Synonyms:

Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order 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 ("order Anguilliformes" is a member of...):

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

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