acanthopterygian vs prickleback

prickleback vs acanthopterygian

acanthopterygian and prickleback both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acanthopterygian	Yes	No	No	No
prickleback	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prickleback is a hyponym of acanthopterygian; that is, prickleback is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than acanthopterygian:

acanthopterygian: a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
prickleback: small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

Other hyponyms of acanthopterygian include squirrelfish, anomalops, flashlight fish, flashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus, dory, boarfish, Capros aper, boarfish, stickleback, batfish, allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish, Opsanus tau, toadfish, frogfish, sargassum fish, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, remora, suckerfish, sucking fish, silverside, silversides, barracuda, launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce, dragonet, scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish, plectognath, plectognath fish, flatfish.

acanthopterygian (noun)	prickleback (noun)
a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays	small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
	small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

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