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stomiids

stomiids is the plural of stomiid.

Meaning of stomiid

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

Questions about stomiids

What is stomiids the plural of?
Stomiids is the plural of stomiid.

Words near stomiids in the dictionary

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

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