family rajidae

English Thesaurus

1. bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	skate,
definition	:	large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus raja, raja,
definition	:	type genus of the family Rajidae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	batoidei, order batoidei, order rajiformes, rajiformes,
definition	:	fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes (noun.animal)