Definition of Naucrates

1. Noun. A genus of Carangidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Naucrates
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Carangidae, Family Carangidae
Member holonyms: Naucrates Ductor, Pilotfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Naucrates

Natrix maura
Natrix natrix
Natrix sipedon
Nats
Natta
Nattalie
Natterer's slaty antshrike
Nattie
Natufian
Natufians
Natural Governing Party
Nature
Naubinway
Nauclea
Nauclea diderrichii
Naucrates (current term)
Naucrates ductor
Naugahyde
Nauheim bath
Nauheim treatment
Naupactus
Nauru
Nauru Island
Nauruan
Nauruans
Nausicaan
Nauta
Nauta's stain
Nautilidae
Navaho

Literary usage of Naucrates

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

1. The Fishes of Zanzibar by Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"The anal has a similar band, which terminates before the eighth ray. Seychelles. Amboyna. Madras. Naucrates, Cuv. 204. Naucrates ductor. [601. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The general form of a Naucrates, and its free dorsal spines; but the head is horizontally flattened, and both the caudal carina and the free spines before ..."

3. The History of Egypt Under the Romans by Samuel Sharpe (1842)
"Pro- clus the sophist, who had a profitable school of rhetoric at Naucrates, his native city, found the place then too much unsettled by the political ..."

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