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Gempylidae

noun

snake mackerels

• Syn: ↑family Gempylidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms:

↑gempylid, ↑Gempylus, ↑genus Gempylus, ↑snake mackerel, ↑Gempylus serpens, ↑Lepidocybium, ↑genus Lepidocybium

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\\jemˈpiləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Gempylus, type genus (from Greek gempylos young tunny) + -idae

: a family of elongated oily-fleshed percomorph fishes of open seas that resemble mackerels and comprise the escolars

Useful english dictionary. 2012.