GENUS OLIGOPLITES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Oligoplites mean? 

• GENUS OLIGOPLITES (noun)
  The noun GENUS OLIGOPLITES has 1 sense:

1. leatherjackets

  Familiarity information: GENUS OLIGOPLITES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS OLIGOPLITES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leatherjackets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Oligoplites; Oligoplites

Hypernyms ("genus Oligoplites" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Oligoplites"):

leatherjack; leatherjacket (any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales)

Holonyms ("genus Oligoplites" is a member of...):

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