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POMATOMUS SALTATRIX
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
Synonyms:
bluefish; Pomatomus saltatrix
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pomatomus saltatrix" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "Pomatomus saltatrix"):
bluefish (fatty bluish flesh of bluefish)
Holonyms ("Pomatomus saltatrix" is a member of...):
genus Pomatomus; Pomatomus (type genus of the Pomatomidae)