HETEROSOMATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heterosomata mean? 

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

1. flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROSOMATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Heterosomata; order Heterosomata; order Pleuronectiformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Heterosomata"):

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)

family Pleuronectidae; Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders)

Bothidae; family Bothidae (a family of fish of the order Heterosomata)

Cynoglossidae; family Cynoglossidae (tonguefishes)

family Soleidae; Soleidae (soles)

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

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