family cobitidae

English Thesaurus

1. loaches (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	loach,
definition	:	slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cypriniformes, order cypriniformes,
definition	:	an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi (noun.animal)