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SERIOLA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of Carangidae

Synonyms:

genus Seriola; Seriola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Seriola"):

amberfish; amberjack (any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes)

Seriola dorsalis; yellowtail (game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin)

banded rudderfish; rudderfish; Seriola zonata (fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters)

Holonyms ("Seriola" 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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