STROMATEID FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stromateid fish mean? 

• STROMATEID FISH (noun)
  The noun STROMATEID FISH has 1 sense:

1. small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

  Familiarity information: STROMATEID FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STROMATEID FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish

Hypernyms ("stromateid fish" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "stromateid fish"):

butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

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

dollarfish; Poronotus triacanthus (small food fish of Atlantic coast)

California pompano; palometa; Palometa simillima (smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies)

harvestfish; Paprilus alepidotus (butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina)

driftfish (small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide)

driftfish (larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico)

barrelfish; black rudderfish; Hyperglyphe perciformis (blackish fish of New England waters)

Holonyms ("stromateid fish" is a member of...):

family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)