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    TELEOSTEI

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living speciesplay

    Synonyms:

    subclass Teleostei; Teleostei

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Teleostei"):

    Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)

    order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)

    leptocephalus (slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes)

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

    Alepisaurus; genus Alepisaurus (slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes)

    Order Osteoglossiformes; Osteoglossiformes (teleost fish with bony tongues)

    order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)

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

    family Pempheridae; Pempheridae (sweepers)

    Ganoidei; order Ganoidei (a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales)

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

    class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)

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