SCORPAENOIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scorpaenoidea mean? 

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

1. mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCORPAENOIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Scorpaenoidea; suborder Scorpaenoidea

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Scorpaenoidea"):

family Ophiodontidae; Ophiodontidae (fishes closely related to greenlings)

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Cottidae; family Cottidae (sculpins)

Cyclopteridae; family Cyclopteridae (lumpfishes)

family Liparidae; family Liparididae; Liparidae; Liparididae (snailfishes)

family Platycephalidae; Platycephalidae (scorpaenoid flatheads)

family Triglidae; Triglidae (in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins))

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

Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)