stromateid — noun small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines • Syn: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish • Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
stromateid — /stroh meuh tee id/, n. 1. any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth. adj. 2. belonging or pertaining to the Stromateidae. [ < NL… … Universalium
percoid fish — noun any of numerous spiny finned fishes of the order Perciformes • Syn: ↑percoid, ↑percoidean • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑perch, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
barrelfish — noun blackish fish of New England waters • Syn: ↑black rudderfish, ↑Hyperglyphe perciformis • Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
driftfish — noun 1. larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico • Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid • Member Holonyms: ↑Ariomma, ↑genus Ariomma 2. small (6 inches) tropical… … Useful english dictionary
percoid — noun any of numerous spiny finned fishes of the order Perciformes • Syn: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoidean • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑perch, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
percoidean — noun any of numerous spiny finned fishes of the order Perciformes • Syn: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑perch, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
dollarfish — noun 1. small food fish of Atlantic coast • Syn: ↑Poronotus triacanthus • Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid • Member Holonyms: ↑Poronotus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
harvestfish — noun butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina • Syn: ↑Paprilus alepidotus • Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid • Member Holonyms: ↑Paprilus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
palometa — noun smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies • Syn: ↑California pompano, ↑Palometa simillima • Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary