squirrelfish
English Thesaurus
1. very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish, |
| definition | : | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | holocentrus coruscus, reef squirrelfish, |
| definition | : | on reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | deepwater squirrelfish, holocentrus bullisi, |
| definition | : | a squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | holocentrus ascensionis, |
| definition | : | bright red fish of West Indies and Bermuda (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | soldier-fish, soldierfish, |
| definition | : | the larger squirrelfishes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family holocentridae, holocentridae, |
| definition | : | squirrelfishes and soldierfishes (noun.animal) |
2. similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | sparid, sparid fish, |
| definition | : | spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus lagodon, lagodon, |
| definition | : | a genus of Sparidae (noun.animal) |
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