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Carangidae

noun

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

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi

• Member Meronyms:

↑carangid fish, ↑carangid, ↑Caranx, ↑genus Caranx, ↑jack, ↑Elagatis, ↑genus Elagatis, ↑Oligoplites, ↑genus Oligoplites, ↑Alectis, ↑genus Alectis, ↑Selene, ↑genus Selene, ↑Seriola, ↑genus Seriola, ↑Trachinotus, ↑genus Trachinotus, ↑Naucrates, ↑genus Naucrates, ↑scad, ↑Trachurus, ↑genus Trachurus, ↑Selar, ↑genus Selar, ↑Decapterus, ↑genus Decapterus

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\\-jəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Carang-, Caranx, type genus + -idae

: a large family of marine percoid fishes containing the pompanos, amberfishes, cavallas, and a number of other narrow-bodied food fishes with widely forked tail chiefly of warm seas

Useful english dictionary. 2012.