order cypriniformes
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1. an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | cypriniform fish, |
| definition | : | a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | cobitidae, family cobitidae, |
| definition | : | loaches (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | cyprinidae, family cyprinidae, |
| definition | : | a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | electrophoridae, family electrophoridae, |
| definition | : | small family comprising the electric eels (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | catostomidae, family catostomidae, |
| definition | : | suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | cyprinodontidae, family cyprinodontidae, |
| definition | : | large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family poeciliidae, poeciliidae, |
| definition | : | topminnows (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | characidae, family characidae, |
| definition | : | tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii, |
| definition | : | an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays (noun.animal) |
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