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stromateid
noun
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Syn: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish
Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
Hyponyms:
dollarfish, ↑Poronotus triacanthus, ↑palometa, ↑California pompano, ↑Palometa simillima, ↑harvestfish, ↑Paprilus alepidotus, ↑driftfish, ↑barrelfish, ↑black rudderfish, ↑Hyperglyphe perciformis
Member Holonyms: ↑Stromateidae, ↑family Stromateidae
Part Meronyms: ↑butterfish

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/stroh'meuh tee"id/, n.
1. any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
adj.
2. belonging or pertaining to the Stromateidae.
[ < NL Stromateidae name of the family, equiv. to Stromate(us) a genus < Gk stromateús bed-covering of patchwork, a kind of fish, (deriv. of strôma, s. stromat- mattress; see STROMA) + NL -idae -ID2]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.