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Scaridae

noun

parrotfishes

• Syn: ↑family Scaridae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑parrotfish, ↑polly fish, ↑pollyfish

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\\ˈskarəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Scarus, type genus + -idae

: a family of marine percoid fishes closely resembling the Labridae but having the teeth of the jaws more or less coalescent and comprising the true parrot fishes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.