noun
cutlassfishes
• Syn: ↑family Trichiuridae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms: ↑cutlassfish, ↑frost fish, ↑hairtail
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\\ˌtrikēˈyu̇rəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Trichiurus type genus (from trich- + -i- + -urus) + -idae
: a family of deep-sea fishes including cutlass fishes and a few related forms and with the snake eels constituting a distinct suborder of Percomorphi
Useful english dictionary. 2012.