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SUBORDER BLENNIOIDEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blennies; butterfishes; gunnels
Synonyms:
Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("suborder Blennioidea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "suborder Blennioidea"):
blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)
Blenniidae; family Blenniidae (a family of fish including: combtooth blennies)
Clinidae; family Clinidae (viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas)
family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae (a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea)
family Stichaeidae; Stichaeidae (pricklebacks)
Anarhichadidae; family Anarhichadidae (wolffishes)
family Zoarcidae; Zoarcidae (eelpouts)
Holonyms ("suborder Blennioidea" is a member of...):
order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)