CATALUFA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catalufa mean? 

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

1. brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATALUFA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catalufa; Priacanthus arenatus

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

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

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

genus Priacanthus; Priacanthus (type genus of the Priacanthidae)