scombroidé

Definitions of scombroidé
  1. noun
    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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    types:
    thon
    any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
    type of:
    percidé
    any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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