noun
mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes
• Syn: ↑suborder Scombroidea
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms:
↑scombroid, ↑scombroid fish, ↑Scombridae, ↑family Scombridae, ↑Katsuwonidae, ↑family Kasuwonidae, ↑Xiphiidae, ↑family Xiphiidae, ↑Istiophoridae, ↑family Istiophoridae, ↑Luvaridae, ↑family Luvaridae
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\\skämˈbrȯidēə\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a suborder of Percomorphi that comprises active streamlined marine fishes having a narrow caudal peduncle, scales absent or small and sometimes spiny, a usually long dorsal fin without projecting spines but sometimes with finlets, a lunate or forked caudal fin and including numerous oily-fleshed fishes (as mackerels, tunas, albacores, bonitos, and swordfishes) and that are of great economic importance as food fishes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.