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Ophidiidae

noun

eellike marine fishes

• Syn: ↑family Ophidiidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi

• Member Meronyms: ↑cusk-eel

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\\ˌäfəˈdīəˌdē, ˌōf-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Ophidion, type genus (from Latin ophidion, fish resembling the conger, from Greek, diminutive of ophis) + -idae

: a family of elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes comprising the cusk eels and with related forms constituting a suborder of Percomorphi

Useful english dictionary. 2012.