YELLOWTAIL SNAPPER

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Meaning:

Superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

Synonyms:

Ocyurus chrysurus; yellowtail; yellowtail snapper

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("yellowtail snapper" is a kind of...):

snapper (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)

Holonyms ("yellowtail snapper" is a member of...):

genus Ocyurus; Ocyurus (snappers)

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