family chlorophthalmidae

English Thesaurus

1. small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	greeneye,
definition	:	bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii,
definition	:	an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays (noun.animal)