soft-finned fish

Questions about soft-finned fish

What does soft-finned fish mean?

soft-finned fish means "any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii".

What is another word for soft-finned fish?

Close synonyms include malacopterygian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of soft-finned fish?

The recorded antonyms are spiny-finned fish.

Is soft-finned fish a common word?

soft-finned fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.