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Kyphosidae

noun

sea chubs

• Syn: ↑family Kyphosidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑sea chub, ↑Kyphosus, ↑genus Kyphosus

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\\kīˈfäsəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a family of chiefly tropical percoid shore fishes resembling bass and including a number of important herbivorous food fishes — see kyphosus, rudderfish

Useful english dictionary. 2012.