ANGUILLIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anguilliformes mean? 

• ANGUILLIFORMES (noun)
  The noun ANGUILLIFORMES has 1 sense:

1. elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced

  Familiarity information: ANGUILLIFORMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGUILLIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes

Hypernyms ("Anguilliformes" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Anguilliformes"):

eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)

Anguillidae; family Anguillidae (eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn)

family Muraenidae; Muraenidae; Congridae; family Congridae (marine eels)

Holonyms ("Anguilliformes" is a member of...):

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)