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FAMILY CENTROPOMIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos
Synonyms:
Centropomidae; family Centropomidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Centropomidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Centropomidae"):
robalo (a kind of percoid fish)
Centropomus; genus Centropomus (type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks)
snook (large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike)
Latinae (a subfamily of the family Centropomidae)
genus Lates; Lates (a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water)
Holonyms ("family Centropomidae" is a member of...):
order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)
