carangoid

carangoid
/keuh rang"goyd/, adj.
1. resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
n.
2. a carangoid fish.
[1860-65; < NL Carang- (s. of Caranx) genus name, a pseudo-Gk form + -OID]

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