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Definition of Carangoid
1. a. Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
Definition of Carangoid
1. Adjective. (zoology) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carangoid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carangoid
Literary usage of Carangoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Several carangoid fishes a(e loosely called mackerel, as the yellow mackerel,
Caranx chrysos. (See mackerel-scad. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"Furthermore, the following carangoid and percoid fishes have these portions as
much abbreviate and elongate, if not more so: ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"In the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Volume 4, 1908, Jordan and Snyder describe
and figure three new carangoid fishes from Formosa. ..."
4. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Charles Rochester Eastman, Eugene Willis Gudger, Arthur Wilbur Henn, American Museum of Natural History (1917)
"Progressive variation in Decap- terus, a genus of carangoid fishes. Science,
1911, ns 34, 217-218. 1911.2 — The aquarium exhibit. Aquarium, October, 1912 ..."
5. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... and carangoid fishes. It reaches a length of about thirty inches and a weight
of ten pounds, its average weight being five or six. ..."
6. A Memorial of George Brown Goode, Together with a Selection of His Papers on by Samuel Pierpont Langley, George Brown Goode, Randolph Iltyd Geare, United States National Museum (1901)
"The memorial was printed separately in the Third Annual Report of the Council,
Edinburgh, May, 1883. pp.41-43. 1881. The carangoid Fishes of the United ..."
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