cupleiforme

Definitions of cupleiforme
  1. noun
    any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
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    sábalo
    herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
    sardina arenque
    any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
    sardina
    small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
    arenque
    important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic
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    malacopterigio
    any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
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