percoidean
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1. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | perch, |
| definition | : | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | perch, |
| definition | : | spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sandfish, |
| definition | : | either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cusk-eel, |
| definition | : | elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | brotula, |
| definition | : | deep-sea fishes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pearl-fish, pearlfish, |
| definition | : | found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | robalo, |
| definition | : | a kind of percoid fish (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pike, |
| definition | : | any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | centrarchid, sunfish, |
| definition | : | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bass, |
| definition | : | nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | serranid, serranid fish, |
| definition | : | marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | surf fish, surffish, surfperch, |
| definition | : | small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bigeye, |
| definition | : | red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | catalufa, priacanthus arenatus, |
| definition | : | brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cardinalfish, |
| definition | : | small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bluefish, pomatomus saltatrix, |
| definition | : | bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi, |
| definition | : | large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cichlid, cichlid fish, |
| definition | : | freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | snapper, |
| definition | : | any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | grunt, |
| definition | : | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sparid, sparid fish, |
| definition | : | spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bream, sea bream, |
| definition | : | any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sciaenid, sciaenid fish, |
| definition | : | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mullet, |
| definition | : | bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sea chub, |
| definition | : | schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | butterfly fish, |
| definition | : | small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | damselfish, demoiselle, |
| definition | : | small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | wrasse, |
| definition | : | chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | threadfin, |
| definition | : | mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | jawfish, |
| definition | : | small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | stargazer, |
| definition | : | heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sand stargazer, |
| definition | : | small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | blennioid, blennioid fish, |
| definition | : | elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | goby, gudgeon, |
| definition | : | small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sleeper, sleeper goby, |
| definition | : | tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | flathead, |
| definition | : | pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | archerfish, toxotes jaculatrix, |
| definition | : | any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | worm fish, |
| definition | : | poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | surgeonfish, |
| definition | : | brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gempylid, |
| definition | : | snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail, |
| definition | : | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | scombroid, scombroid fish, |
| definition | : | important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | clingfish, |
| definition | : | very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tripletail, |
| definition | : | large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mojarra, |
| definition | : | small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | whiting, |
| definition | : | a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish (noun.animal) |
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