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    FAMILY CENTROPOMIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalosplay

    Synonyms:

    Centropomidae; family Centropomidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Centropomidae" is a kind of...):

    fish family (any of various families of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "family Centropomidae"):

    robalo (a kind of percoid fish)

    Centropomus; genus Centropomus (type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks)

    snook (large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike)

    Latinae (a subfamily of the family Centropomidae)

    genus Lates; Lates (a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water)

    Holonyms ("family Centropomidae" 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)

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