Akademik

Scleroparei

noun

scorpionfishes; sculpins; gurnards; greenlings; flying gurnards

• Syn: ↑order Scleroparei

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Acanthopterygii, ↑superorder Acanthopterygii

• Member Meronyms: ↑Agonidae, ↑family Agonidae, ↑Hexagrammidae, ↑family Hexagrammidae, ↑Dactylopteridae, ↑family Dactylopteridae

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\\ˌsklirōpəˈrēˌī, -ler-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from scler- + Greek pareia cheek

: a large and economically important order of spiny-finned fishes comprising the scorpion fishes, greenlings, sculpins, gurnards, and related forms that are distinguished by a process of the third suborbital plate extending backward to or toward the preopercle — compare mail-cheeked

Useful english dictionary. 2012.