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GEMPYLID

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gempylid" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gempylid"):

Gempylus serpens; snake mackerel (predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth)

escolar; Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes)

oilfish; Ruvettus pretiosus (very large deep-water snake mackerel)

Holonyms ("gempylid" is a member of...):

family Gempylidae; Gempylidae (snake mackerels)

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