DECAPTERUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Decapterus mean? 

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

1. scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECAPTERUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Decapterus; genus Decapterus

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Decapterus"):

Decapterus macarellus; mackerel scad; mackerel shad (small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil)

cigarfish; Decapterus punctatus; quiaquia; round scad (small fusiform fish of western Atlantic)

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

Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)