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SQUARETAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squaretail mean? 

SQUARETAIL (noun)
  The noun SQUARETAIL has 1 sense:

1. sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm watersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUARETAIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

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

genus Tetragonurus; Tetragonurus (a genus of Stromateidae)


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