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Definition of Scombridae
1. Noun. Marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Scombroidea, Suborder Scombroidea
Member holonyms: Mackerel, Genus Scomber, Scomber, Acanthocybium, Genus Acanthocybium, Genus Scomberomorus, Scomberomorus, Genus Thunnus, Thunnus, Genus Sarda, Sarda, Euthynnus, Genus Euthynnus, Genus Katsuwonus, Katsuwonus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scombridae
Literary usage of Scombridae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"There are numerous pyloric appendages to the intestine, but the swimming or air
bladder is wanting. SYN.—scombridae, BONAP. Sagg. distr. anim. vertebr. ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... the Pilot-fish genus of fishes, belonging to the family scombridae, which may
be thus shown : — FAM. 1C. — scombridae. FIRST GROUP. ..."