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Noun
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(n)
teleost fish
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teleost
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teleostan
(a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
direct hyponym
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full hyponym
S:
(n)
soft-finned fish
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malacopterygian
(any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
S:
(n)
cornetfish
(slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales)
S:
(n)
pipefish
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needlefish
(fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)
S:
(n)
snipefish
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bellows fish
(small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth)
S:
(n)
shrimpfish
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shrimp-fish
(slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates)
S:
(n)
trumpetfish
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Aulostomus maculatus
(tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down)
S:
(n)
needlefish
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gar
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billfish
(elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters)
S:
(n)
flying fish
(tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight)
S:
(n)
halfbeak
(tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw)
S:
(n)
saury
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billfish
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Scomberesox saurus
(slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters)
S:
(n)
spiny-finned fish
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acanthopterygian
(a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
S:
(n)
sweeper
(little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body)
S:
(n)
ganoid
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ganoid fish
(primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)
member holonym
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term