muraenoidadj.n.
/mjʊˈriːnɔɪd/, U.S. /mjʊˈriˌnɔɪd/ Zoology. Now rare.
A. adj.
= muraenid adj.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [adjective] > belonging to family Muraenidae
muraenoid1848
muraenid1949
1848 R. A. Owen in Times 14 Nov. 9/1 Both..like other murænoid fishes and the known small sea snake (hydrophis) swim by undulatory movements of the body.
1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 550 A new Murænoid genus.
1926 Science 64 455 The posterior extension of the vesicular yolk into a narrow stalk..was typical of a murænoid embryo.
B. n.
= muraenid n.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Muraenidae (eel)
eelc1000
moray1624
mudworm1700
muraena1753
morene1773
muraenoid1849
warper1901
1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Murenoids, a family of Apodal fishes, including the true eels.
1859–62 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. II. 140 Family III—Murænoids (Murænædæ [sic]).
1878 Philos. Trans. 1877 (Royal Soc.) 167 582 The Siluroids and the Murænoids.
1923 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 211 192 The development of the larvæ of the two Anguilla species and a series of other Atlantic murænoids.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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