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POMATOMIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pomatomidae mean?
• POMATOMIDAE (noun)
The noun POMATOMIDAE has 1 sense:
1. food and game fishes related to pompanos
Familiarity information: POMATOMIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Food and game fishes related to pompanos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Pomatomidae; Pomatomidae
Hypernyms ("Pomatomidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Pomatomidae"):
genus Pomatomus; Pomatomus (type genus of the Pomatomidae)
Holonyms ("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)
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