noun
bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
• Syn: ↑family Apogonidae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms: ↑cardinalfish, ↑Apogon, ↑genus Apogon, ↑Astropogon, ↑genus Astropogon
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\\ˌapəˈgänəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
in many classifications : a family (type genus Apogon) of bright-colored tropical marine percoid fishes many of which incubate the eggs in the mouth
Useful english dictionary. 2012.