CARANGID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carangid mean? 

• CARANGID (noun)
  The noun CARANGID has 1 sense:

1. a percoid fish of the family Carangidae

  Familiarity information: CARANGID used as a noun is very rare.

• CARANGID (adjective)
  The adjective CARANGID has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae

  Familiarity information: CARANGID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARANGID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A percoid fish of the family Carangidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carangid; carangid fish

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

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carangid"):

jack (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)

Atlantic moonfish; dollarfish; horse-head; horsefish; horsehead; moonfish; Selene setapinnis (any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies)

pompano (any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico)

Naucrates ductor; pilotfish (small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas)

scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)

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

Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)

Derivation:

carangid (of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae)

• CARANGID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Pertainym:

Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)

Derivation:

carangid (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)