family malacanthidae

English Thesaurus

1. short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	genus lopholatilus, lopholatilus,
definition	:	large brightly colored food fish of deep Atlantic waters (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)