family ogcocephalidae

English Thesaurus

1. batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	batfish,
definition	:	bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order pediculati, pediculati,
definition	:	anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth (noun.animal)