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QUIAQUIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quiaquia mean?
• QUIAQUIA (noun)
The noun QUIAQUIA has 1 sense:
1. small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
Familiarity information: QUIAQUIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cigarfish; Decapterus punctatus; quiaquia; round scad
Hypernyms ("quiaquia" is a kind of...):
scad (any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae)
Holonyms ("quiaquia" is a member of...):
Decapterus; genus Decapterus (scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution)
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