Scombroidea

Scombroidea
noun
mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms:

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\\skämˈbrȯidēə\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Scombr-, Scomber + -oidea
: a suborder of Percomorphi that comprises active streamlined marine fishes having a narrow caudal peduncle, scales absent or small and sometimes spiny, a usually long dorsal fin without projecting spines but sometimes with finlets, a lunate or forked caudal fin and including numerous oily-fleshed fishes (as mackerels, tunas, albacores, bonitos, and swordfishes) and that are of great economic importance as food fishes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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