CARANGIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carangidae mean? 

• CARANGIDAE (noun)
  The noun CARANGIDAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas

  Familiarity information: CARANGIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARANGIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carangidae; family Carangidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Carangidae"):

carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)

Caranx; genus Caranx (type genus of the Carangidae)

jack (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)

Elagatis; genus Elagatis (a genus of Carangidae)

genus Oligoplites; Oligoplites (leatherjackets)

Alectis; genus Alectis; genus Selene; Selene; genus Seriola; Seriola; genus Trachinotus; Trachinotus; genus Naucrates; Naucrates (a genus of Carangidae)

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

genus Trachurus; Trachurus (the scads (particularly horse mackerels))

genus Selar; Selar (big-eyed scad)

Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)