TRIPLETAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tripletail mean? 

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

1. large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIPLETAIL (noun)

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Meaning:

Large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tripletail"):

Atlantic tripletail; Lobotes surinamensis (tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America)

Lobotes pacificus; Pacific tripletail (tripletail found in the Pacific)

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

genus Lobotes; Lobotes (type genus of the Lobotidae)