spiny-finned fish
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1. a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | squirrelfish, |
| definition | : | very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | anomalops, flashlight fish, |
| definition | : | fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dory, |
| definition | : | marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | boarfish, |
| definition | : | fish with large eyes and long snouts (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | prickleback, stickleback, |
| definition | : | small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | batfish, |
| definition | : | bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | opsanus tau, toadfish, |
| definition | : | bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | frogfish, |
| definition | : | fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sargassum fish, |
| definition | : | small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | remora, suckerfish, sucking fish, |
| definition | : | marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | silverside, silversides, |
| definition | : | small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | barracuda, |
| definition | : | any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dragonet, |
| definition | : | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | plectognath, plectognath fish, |
| definition | : | tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | flatfish, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
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