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ELAGATIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Elagatis mean? 

ELAGATIS (noun)
  The noun ELAGATIS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Carangidaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ELAGATIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Carangidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Elagatis; genus Elagatis

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

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

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


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