noun
an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii
• Syn: ↑order Berycomorphi
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Acanthopterygii, ↑superorder Acanthopterygii
• Member Meronyms: ↑Holocentridae, ↑family Holocentridae, ↑Anomalopidae, ↑family Anomalopidae
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\\bəˌrīkōˈmȯrˌfī\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: an order of spiny-rayed fishes that is nearly coextensive with Berycoidei and that includes a number of families of marine chiefly deepwater fishes intermediate in some respects between clupeoid fishes and the Percomorphi, some of which (as the Australian red snapper) are of considerable commercial value
Useful english dictionary. 2012.