POMATOMUS SALTATRIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pomatomus saltatrix mean? 

• POMATOMUS SALTATRIX (noun)
  The noun POMATOMUS SALTATRIX has 1 sense:

1. bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

  Familiarity information: POMATOMUS SALTATRIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POMATOMUS SALTATRIX (noun)

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Meaning:

Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bluefish; Pomatomus saltatrix

Hypernyms ("Pomatomus saltatrix" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "Pomatomus saltatrix"):

bluefish (fatty bluish flesh of bluefish)

Holonyms ("Pomatomus saltatrix" is a member of...):

genus Pomatomus; Pomatomus (type genus of the Pomatomidae)