carangid fish

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Noun

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carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae carangid 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