SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Scombroidea mean? 

• SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEA (noun)
  The noun SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEA has 1 sense:

1. mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes

  Familiarity information: SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Scombroidea; suborder Scombroidea

Hypernyms ("suborder Scombroidea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Scombroidea"):

scombroid; scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)

family Scombridae; Scombridae (marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna)

family Kasuwonidae; Katsuwonidae (in some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos)

family Xiphiidae; Xiphiidae (comprising the common swordfishes)

family Istiophoridae; Istiophoridae (sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins)

family Luvaridae; Luvaridae (louvars)

Holonyms ("suborder Scombroidea" 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)