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    SCORPAENOIDEA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnardsplay

    Synonyms:

    Scorpaenoidea; suborder Scorpaenoidea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    animal order (the order of animals)

    Meronyms (members of "Scorpaenoidea"):

    family Ophiodontidae; Ophiodontidae (fishes closely related to greenlings)

    scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

    Cottidae; family Cottidae (sculpins)

    Cyclopteridae; family Cyclopteridae (lumpfishes)

    family Liparidae; family Liparididae; Liparidae; Liparididae (snailfishes)

    family Platycephalidae; Platycephalidae (scorpaenoid flatheads)

    family Triglidae; Triglidae (in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins))

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

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

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