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English Thesaurus

1. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	teleost, teleost fish, teleostan,
definition	:	a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	timucu,
definition	:	found in warm waters of western Atlantic (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	belonidae, family belonidae,
definition	:	ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars (noun.animal)

2. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	ganoid, ganoid fish,
definition	:	primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus lepisosteus, lepisosteus,
definition	:	type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars (noun.animal)