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Uranoscopidae

noun

stargazers

• Syn: ↑family Uranoscopidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑stargazer

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\\ˌyu̇rənōˈskäpəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Uranoscopus, type genus (from Latin uranoscopus, a fish, from Greek ouranoskopos, from ouranoskopos, adjective, observing the heavens, from ouranos sky, heaven + -skopos observing, from skopein to observe, look at) + -idae — more at spy

: a family of percoid fishes comprising the stargazers

Useful english dictionary. 2012.