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Pomatomidae

noun

food and game fishes related to pompanos

• Syn: ↑family Pomatomidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑Pomatomus, ↑genus Pomatomus

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\\ˌpōməˈtäməˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek Pomatomus, type genus + -idae

: a family of percoid fishes consisting of the genus Pomatomus and containing solely the nearly cosmopolitan bluefish

Useful english dictionary. 2012.