STROMATEID

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Synonyms:

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "stromateid"):

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

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

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)

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

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