acanthopterygian

(ˌækənˌθɒptəˈrɪdʒɪən) adj (Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to the Acanthopterygii, a large group of teleost fishes having spiny fin rays. The group includes most saltwater bony fishesn (Animals) any fish belonging to the Acanthopterygii[C19: from New Latin Acanthopterygii, from acantho- + Greek pterúgion fin]

ac•an•thop•ter•yg•i•an

(ˌæk ənˌθɒp təˈrɪdʒ i ən)

adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the Acanthopterygii, the group of spiny-finned fishes, including the bass and perch. n. 2. an acanthopterygian fish. [1825–35; < New Latin Acanthopterygi(i) + -an¹]

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acanthopterygian - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysspiny-finned fishsquirrelfish - very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's barkanomalops, flashlight fish - fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Ricoflashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eyedory - marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope watersCapros aper, boarfish - fish with a projecting snoutboarfish - fish with large eyes and long snoutsstickleback, prickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much researchteleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleosteibatfish - bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic finsangler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, allmouth, monkfish, angler - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring preyOpsanus tau, toadfish - bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouthfrogfish - fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snoutsargassum fish - small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassumAcanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii - teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rayspercoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformesremora, suckerfish, sucking fish - marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objectssilverside, silversides - small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United Statesbarracuda - any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teethlaunce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beachesdragonet - small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and Americascorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony platesplectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spinesflatfish - any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side

acanthopterygian