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Lutjanidae

noun

snappers

• Syn: ↑family Lutjanidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑snapper, ↑Lutjanus, ↑genus Lutjanus, ↑Ocyurus, ↑genus Ocyurus

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\\-ˈchanəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a large family of active carnivorous marine percoid fishes chiefly of rocks and reefs along tropic shores that includes a number of important food fishes — compare snapper

Useful english dictionary. 2012.