malacopterygian

malacopterygian

(ˌmæləˌkɒptəˈrɪdʒɪən) adj (Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to the Malacopterygii, a group of teleost fishes, including herrings and salmon, having soft fin raysn (Animals) any malacopterygian fish; a soft-finned fish[C19: from New Latin Malacopterygii, from malaco- + Greek pterux wing, fin]

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Noun

1.malacopterygian - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygiisoft-finned fishMalacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii - an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous raysorder Ostariophysi, Ostariophysi - in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformescypriniform fish - a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformessiluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouthgadoid, gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidaeeel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral finsteleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleosteibeaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, sandfish - fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sandclupeid, clupeid fish - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seaswhitebait - the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smeltsanchovy - small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwidesalmonid - soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waterswhitefish - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemispheresmelt - small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waterstarpon, Tarpon atlanticus - large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off FloridaAlbula vulpes, bonefish - slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoonsargentine - any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fisheslanternfish - small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at nightlizardfish, snakefish, snake-fish - tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwidegreeneye - bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green lusterlancet fish, lancetfish, wolffish - large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sailhandsaw fish - a soft-finned fish of the genus AlepisaurusLampris regius, opah, moonfish - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and MediterraneanLampris guttatus, New World opah - from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexicoribbonfish - marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike bodyking of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish - thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin