noun
snake mackerels
• Syn: ↑family Gempylidae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms:
↑gempylid, ↑Gempylus, ↑genus Gempylus, ↑snake mackerel, ↑Gempylus serpens, ↑Lepidocybium, ↑genus Lepidocybium
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\\jemˈpiləˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a family of elongated oily-fleshed percomorph fishes of open seas that resemble mackerels and comprise the escolars
Useful english dictionary. 2012.