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stomiid

stomiid noun: any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.

Noun

stomiid (plural stomiids)

  1. Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.
    • Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing

Forms of stomiid

pluralstomiids

Questions about stomiid

What does stomiid mean?
Stomiid means any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.
What part of speech is stomiid?
Stomiid is a noun.
What is the plural of stomiid?
The plural of stomiid is stomiids.

Words near stomiid in the dictionary

  1. stomiatid
  2. stomiatids
  3. stomiatoid
  4. stomick
  5. stomicks
  6. stomiid
  7. stomiids
  8. stomiiform
  9. stomiiforms
  10. stomium
  11. stommie

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