Meaning

a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

Context words

fins; fish; inflexible; rays; sharp; supported; teleost

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Word	Language	Frequency
■ acanthopterygian Noun; Singular; Count	English	0
■ spiny-finned fish Noun; Singular	English	0

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a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

Teleostei; bony; fish; subclass

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any fish of the class Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes; class; fish

English	■ bony fish
German	■ Knochenfisch

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any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

Meat & poultry

životinje dieren aquatic; breathing; cold-blooded; gills; scales; vertebrates animal najširšom; v; zmysle hayvan

English	■ fish
German	■ Fisch ■ Fische ■ Fish

Quechua	■ challwa
Turkish	■ balik ■ balık
Uzbek	■ Baliq

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animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water

animal; chiefly; living; water; wholly

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aquatic vertebrate

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animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

animals; bony; brain; cartilaginous; column; cranium; enclosed; large; segmented; skeleton; skull; spinal

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craniate

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vertebrate

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any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

Chordata; animal; column; notochord; phylum; spinal

Danish	■ Chordater
Dutch	■ chordadieren

English	■ chordate
French	■ Chordés
German	■ Chordatiere

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a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

characterized; living; movement; organism; voluntary

English	■ animal ■ animate being ■ beast ■ brute ■ creature ■ fauna ■ man or animal
French	■ animal ■ animal ■ bête

German	■ Lebewesen ■ Tier
Portuguese	■ alimária ■ animal ■ besta ■ bicho ■ ente ■ entidade ■ ser
Romany	■ animal

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a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

ability; act; develop; function; independently; living; thing

Dutch	■ organisme
English	■ being ■ organism

French	■ organisme
German	■ Organismus
Portuguese	■ organismo

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a living (or once living) entity

entity; living

English	■ animate thing ■ living thing
French	■ être vivant

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a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow

cast; entity; shadow; tangible; visible

English	■ object ■ physical object
German	■ Gegenstand

Malay	■ benda
Portuguese	■ assunto ■ objecto ■ objeto
Yucatan	■ ba'al

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that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

Philosophy

višeznačni čvor distinct; existence; inferred; living; nonliving; own; perceived philosophie

Czech	■ entita
English	■ entity

German	■ Entität
Spanish	■ entidad
Uzbek	■ asos ■ mohiyat ■ tab

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any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

Malacopterygii; fish; superorder

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malacopterygian

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soft-finned fish

very small brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark

bark; brightly; colored; especially; fishes; nocturnal; red; reefs; shallow; small; sounds; squirrel's; tropical; waters

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squirrelfish

fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico

Pacific; Puerto; Rico; beneath; eye; fish; luminous; organ; warm; waters; western

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anomalops

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flashlight fish

fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye

dark; deep; eye; fish; light; organ; waters

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flashlight fish

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photoblepharon palpebratus

marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters

deep; distributed; fishes; marine; mid-waters; slope; waters; widely

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dory

fish with a projecting snout

fish; projecting; snout

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boarfish

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capros aper

fish with large eyes and long snouts

eyes; fish; large; long; snouts

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boarfish

small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

courtship; elaborate; fishes; fresh; inches; littoral; northern; pugnacious; research; scaleless; small; spiny-backed; subjects; waters

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prickleback

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stickleback

a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

Teleostei; bony; fish; subclass

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

Atlantic; body; bottom-dweller; coastal; crawls; fins; flattened; fleshy; pectoral; pelvic; scaleless; warm; waters; western

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batfish

fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

attached; filament; fishes; large; luring; mouths; prey; wormlike

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bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth

bottom-dwelling; broad; fish; head; mouth; scaleless; skin; slimy; thick; wide

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opsanus tau

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toadfish

fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout

fish; frog-like; lure; mouth; snout

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frogfish

small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum

colored; fantastically; fishes; formed; found; masses; sargassum; small

Hyponym

English	■ sargassum fish
Japanese	■ はなおこぜ ■ 花虎魚

teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays

bony; fins; fishes; rays; sharp; teleost

Member Holonym

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acanthopterygii

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superorder acanthopterygii

any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

Perciformes; fishes; numerous; order; spiny-finned

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marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

attaching; body; disk; elongated; fish; fishes; flattened; head; large; marine; moving; objects; sucking

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small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; found along the Atlantic coast of the United States

Atlantic; States; United; coast; fishes; found; side; silver; small; stripe

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silverside

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silversides

any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth

Fish and seafood

Sphyraena; body; cylindrical; elongated; fish; genus; jaw; large; long; lower; marine; mouth; projecting; strong; teeth; voracious

Hyponym

English	■ barracuda
German	■ Edelhecht ■ Sphyraenidae

Japanese	■ かます ■ 梭子魚 ■ 梭魚 ■ 魳
Uzbek	■ dengiz cho'rtan balig'i

very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

beaches; burrow; eellike; fishes; sandy; schooling; silvery; small

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small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm-temperate waters of Europe and America

America; Europe; bottom-dwellers; brightly; colored; found; marine; scaleless; small; tropical; warm-temperate; waters

Hyponym

English	■ dragonet
German	■ leierfische

Italian	■ callionymidae
Latin	■ callionymidae
Portuguese	■ callionymidae

fishes having the head armored with bony plates

armored; bony; fishes; head; plates

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scorpaenoid

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scorpaenoid fish

tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

beak; bony; covered; fishes; fused; marine; plates; skin; spines; teeth; thick; tropical

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plectognath

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plectognath fish

any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side

bodies; body; eyes; families; fishes; flattened; floor; sea; side; swim; upper

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flatfish

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a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

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