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CARANGIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
Synonyms:
Carangidae; family Carangidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Carangidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Carangidae"):
carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)
Caranx; genus Caranx (type genus of the Carangidae)
jack (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)
Elagatis; genus Elagatis (a genus of Carangidae)
genus Oligoplites; Oligoplites (leatherjackets)
Alectis; genus Alectis; genus Selene; Selene; genus Seriola; Seriola; genus Trachinotus; Trachinotus; genus Naucrates; Naucrates (a genus of Carangidae)
scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)
genus Trachurus; Trachurus (the scads (particularly horse mackerels))
genus Selar; Selar (big-eyed scad)
Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)
Holonyms ("Carangidae" is a member of...):
order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)
