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gempylid

gempylid noun: any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.

gempylid: any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae
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Noun

gempylid (plural gempylids)

  1. Any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.
    • He also placed Lepidocybium Gill 1862 as the sister group of all the other gempylids and trichiurids.1998, The Museum, Contributions in Science, numbers 469-480, page 4
    • The larvae most likely to be confused with trichiurids are paralepidids and gempylids.2000, F. J. Gago, J. M. Leis, T. Trnski, “111: Trichiuridae”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 704

Synonyms of gempylid

Forms of gempylid

pluralgempylids

Questions about gempylid

What does gempylid mean?
Gempylid means any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.
What part of speech is gempylid?
Gempylid is a noun.
What is the plural of gempylid?
The plural of gempylid is gempylids.

Words near gempylid in the dictionary

  1. Gemorra
  2. gemot
  3. gemote
  4. gemotes
  5. gemots
  6. gempylid
  7. gempylids
  8. gempylotoxic
  9. gempylotoxism
  10. gems
  11. gemsbok

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