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PAPRILUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of Stromateidae

Synonyms:

genus Paprilus; Paprilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Paprilus"):

harvestfish; Paprilus alepidotus (butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina)

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

family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)

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