family trichodontidae

English Thesaurus

1. two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	sandfish,
definition	:	either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand (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)