HyperDic: anguilliformes

English > 1 sense of the word Anguilliformes:
NOUNanimalAnguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodeselongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
English > Anguilliformes: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningelongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced.
Synonymsorder Anguilliformes, order Apodes
Member ofMalacopterygii, superorder MalacopterygiiAn extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays
MembersAnguillidae, family Anguillidaeeels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
Congridae, family Congridaemarine eels
Muraenidae, family Muraenidaemarine eels
eelvoracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
Broaderanimal orderThe order of animals
Spanishanguiliformes
Catalananguiliformes

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