Stromateidae

plural noun

Stro·ma·te·i·dae

ˌstrōməˈtēəˌdē

: a large family of chiefly small marine fishes (such as the harvest fish and the dollarfish) having a short compressed body, smooth scales, feeble spines, and a series of toothlike processes in the esophagus behind the pharyngeal bones that with a few related forms constitutes a distinct suborder of Percomorphi

stromateoid

strəˈmatēˌȯid

adjective or noun

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Stromateus, type genus (from Greek strōmateus bed covering, a fish marked with patchwork colors, from strōmat-, strōma bed covering) + -idae