CENTROPOMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Centropomidae mean? 

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

1. a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTROPOMIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Centropomidae; family Centropomidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Centropomidae"):

robalo (a kind of percoid fish)

Centropomus; genus Centropomus (type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks)

snook (large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike)

Latinae (a subfamily of the family Centropomidae)

genus Lates; Lates (a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)