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PLECTOGNATHI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers

Synonyms:

order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Plectognathi"):

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

Balistidae; family Balistidae (triggerfishes)

family Monocanthidae; Monocanthidae (filefishes)

family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae (boxfishes)

family Tetraodontidae; Tetraodontidae (puffers)

Diodontidae; family Diodontidae (spiny puffers)

family Molidae; Molidae (ocean sunfishes)

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

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

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