malacopterygian vs eel

eel vs malacopterygian

malacopterygian and eel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malacopterygian	Yes	No	No	No
eel	Yes	No	No	No

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

malacopterygian: any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
eel: voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Other hyponyms of malacopterygian include order Ostariophysi, Ostariophysi, cypriniform fish, catfish, siluriform fish, gadoid, gadoid fish, beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, sandfish, clupeid, clupeid fish, anchovy, salmonid, whitefish, smelt, tarpon, Tarpon atlanticus, Albula vulpes, bonefish, argentine, lanternfish, lizardfish, snake-fish, snakefish, greeneye, lancet fish, lancetfish, wolffish, handsaw fish, Lampris regius, moonfish, opah, Lampris guttatus, New World opah, ribbonfish, king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish.

malacopterygian (noun)	eel (noun)
any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii	voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
	the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

Difference between malacopterygian and eel

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