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SKIPJACK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound

Synonyms:

click beetle; skipjack; snapping beetle

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Nouns denoting animals

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

elater; elaterid; elaterid beetle (any of various widely distributed beetles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna

Synonyms:

Atlantic bonito; Sarda sarda; skipjack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

bonito (any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas)

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

genus Sarda; Sarda (bonitos)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito

Synonyms:

Euthynnus pelamis; skipjack; skipjack tuna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

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

Euthynnus; genus Euthynnus (a genus of Scombridae)

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