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THREADFIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does threadfin mean?
• THREADFIN (noun)
The noun THREADFIN has 1 sense:
1. mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
Familiarity information: THREADFIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("threadfin" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "threadfin"):
barbu; Polydactylus virginicus (found along western Atlantic coast)
Holonyms ("threadfin" is a member of...):
family Polynemidae; Polynemidae (threadfins)
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