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Definition of Alectis

1. Noun. A genus of Carangidae.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alectis

Aldrovanda Aldrovanda vesiculosa ale aleatoric aleatory aleatory contract alebench alec alecithal alecithal

alecithal ovum alecost alecost alecosts alecs Alectis (current term) Alectis ciliaris Alecto Alectoria alectorides

Alectoris Alectoris graeca Alectoris ruffa Alectorobius talaje alectoromachy alectoromancy alectryomancy Alectura Alectura lathami Alec Guinness

Literary usage of Alectis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"As it is of rather rare occurrence in the Australian portion of its habitat, it is of no economic importance. Fig. 57.—PENNANT-FISH (Alectis ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In Alectis ciliaris, the cobbler-fish, ... the bony armature of the tail, feeble in Alectis, by degrees entirely disappears. ..."

3. Corundum and the Peridotites of Western North Carolina by Joseph Hyde Pratt, Joseph Volney Lewis (1907)
"(Alectis, chicken-cock, in allusion to the names sea-cock, sea-hen, ... Alectis CILIARIS (Bloch). "Moon-fish"; "Shoemaker"; Thread-fish; Cobbler-fish. ..."

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