family Carangidae

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

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