ACANTHOPTERYGIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acanthopterygian mean? 

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

1. a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACANTHOPTERYGIAN (noun)

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Meaning:

A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish

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

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acanthopterygian"):

sargassum fish (small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum)

flatfish (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)

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

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

dragonet (small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America)

launce; sand eel; sand lance; sand launce (very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches)

barracuda (any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth)

silverside; silversides (small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States)

remora; suckerfish; sucking fish (marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects)

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

squirrelfish (very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark)

frogfish (fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout)

Opsanus tau; toadfish (bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth)

allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish (fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey)

batfish (bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins)

prickleback; stickleback (small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research)

boarfish (fish with large eyes and long snouts)

boarfish; Capros aper (fish with a projecting snout)

dory (marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters)

flashlight fish; Photoblepharon palpebratus (fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye)

anomalops; flashlight fish (fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico)

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

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