SQUARETAIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("squaretail" is a kind of...):

scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

Holonyms ("squaretail" is a member of...):

genus Tetragonurus; Tetragonurus (a genus of Stromateidae)

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