family acanthuridae

English Thesaurus

1. surgeonfishes (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	surgeonfish,
definition	:	brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	acanthurus, genus acanthurus,
definition	:	type genus of the Acanthuridae: doctorfishes (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)