Home › Words › M › malacopterygianmalacopterygianmalacopterygian means (zoology) Any of the obsolete order of fish Malacopterygii.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, malacopterygian ranks #36,621 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom translingual Malacopterygii + -an.noun(zoology) Any of the obsolete order of fish Malacopterygii.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.malacopterygious 91% match — Belonging to the Malacopterygii, an obsolete order of fish. vs malacopterygian →malacological 65% match — Of, or pertaining to, malacology. vs malacopterygian →malacostracous 64% match — Belonging to the Malacostraca. vs malacopterygian →malacozoological 64% match — malacological vs malacopterygian →acanthopterygian 64% match — Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii. vs malacopterygian →ichthyopterygian 62% match — Any of the superorder †Ichthyopterygia of extinct marine reptiles, superficially resembling dolphins. vs malacopterygian →malacozoology 61% match — malacology vs malacopterygian →lophobranchiate 61% match — Of or pertaining to the obsolete order of fish Lophobranchii, roughly corresponding to modern-day order Syngnathiformes. vs malacopterygian →