noun
snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Hyponyms: ↑snake mackerel, ↑Gempylus serpens, ↑escolar, ↑Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, ↑oilfish, ↑Ruvettus pretiosus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gempylidae, ↑family Gempylidae
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/jem pil"id/, n.
1. any of several fishes of the family Gempylidae, comprising the snake mackerels.
adj.
2. belonging or pertaining to the gempylids.
[ < NL Gempylidae name of the family, equiv. to Gempyl(us) name of the genus ( < Gk gempýlos a kind of fish) + -idae -ID2]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.