Carangidae

Carangidae
noun
large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
Syn: ↑family Carangidae
Hypernyms: ↑fish family
Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
Member Meronyms:

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\\-jəˌdē\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Carang-, Caranx, type genus + -idae
: a large family of marine percoid fishes containing the pompanos, amberfishes, cavallas, and a number of other narrow-bodied food fishes with widely forked tail chiefly of warm seas

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