carangid

ca·ran·gid  (k-rnjd, -rnggd)

n.

Any of a large family (Carangidae) of marine food and game fishes, such as the jacks and pompanos.

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[From New Latin Carangidae, family name, from French carangue, mackerel, from Spanish caranga, perhaps ultimately from Latin cancer, crab.]

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ca·rangid adj.

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carangid [kəˈrændʒɪd -ˈræŋgɪd], carangoid [kəˈræŋgɔɪd]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Carangidae

[from New Latin Carangidae, from Caranx type genus, from French carangue shad, from Spanish caranga, of obscure origin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	carangid - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae carangid fish percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis, Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies pompano - any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Naucrates ductor, pilotfish - small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
Adj.	1.	carangid - of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals