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GENUS SELAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Big-eyed scad

Synonyms:

genus Selar; Selar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Selar" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Selar"):

big-eyed scad; bigeye scad; goggle-eye; Selar crumenophthalmus (of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait)

Holonyms ("genus Selar" is a member of...):

Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)

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