SEA CHUB

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Meaning:

Schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea chub" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea chub"):

Bermuda chub; Kyphosus sectatrix; rudderfish (food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships)

Holonyms ("sea chub" is a member of...):

family Kyphosidae; Kyphosidae (sea chubs)