family synodontidae

English Thesaurus

1. soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	lizardfish, snake-fish, snakefish,
definition	:	tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii,
definition	:	an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays (noun.animal)