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Agonidae

noun

poachers

• Syn: ↑family Agonidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Scleroparei, ↑order Scleroparei

• Member Meronyms:

↑poacher, ↑sea poacher, ↑sea poker, ↑Agonus, ↑genus Agonus, ↑Aspidophoroides, ↑genus Aspidophoroides

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\\əˈgänəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a family of small slender fishes (order Scleroparei) having the body covered with overlapping striated often spiny plates

Useful english dictionary. 2012.