FAMILY POMATOMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pomatomidae mean? 

• FAMILY POMATOMIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY POMATOMIDAE has 1 sense:

1. food and game fishes related to pompanos

  Familiarity information: FAMILY POMATOMIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY POMATOMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food and game fishes related to pompanos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pomatomidae; Pomatomidae

Hypernyms ("family Pomatomidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Pomatomidae"):

genus Pomatomus; Pomatomus (type genus of the Pomatomidae)

Holonyms ("family Pomatomidae" is a member of...):

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)