English > scombroid fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonym | scombroid |
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| Member of | Scombroidea, suborder Scombroidea | mackerels |
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| Narrower | billfish | giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw |
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| bonito | Any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics / characteristics between mackerels and tunas / tunas |
| bonito, oceanic bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis | fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery |
| louvar, Luvarus imperialis | large silvery fish found worldwide / worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common |
| mackerel | Any of various fishes of the family Scombridae |
| sailfish | large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail |
| skipjack, skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis | Oceanic schooling tuna / tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic |
| squaretail | sluggish / sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales |
| swordfish, Xiphias gladius | large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw |
| tuna, tunny | Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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| Spanish | escómbrido |
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| Catalan | escòmbrid |
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