Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a large family (Carangidae) of marine food and game fishes, such as the jacks and pompanos.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Carangidœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to the
Carangidae . - noun any fish of the family
Carangidae , including thecavallas ,jacks ,pompanos andscads .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
fish belonging to the Carangidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae
- noun a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Carangidae, family name, from French carangue, mackerel, from Spanish caranga, perhaps ultimately from Latin cancer, crab.]
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