family anabantidae

English Thesaurus

1. small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	anabas, genus anabas,
definition	:	the type genus of the family Anabantidae; small fish that resemble perch (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order perciformes, order percomorphi, perciformes, percomorphi,
definition	:	one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna (noun.animal)