Carangidae

plural noun

Ca·​ran·​gi·​dae

-jəˌdē

: a large family of marine percoid fishes containing the pompanos, amberfishes, cavallas, and a number of other narrow-bodied food fishes with widely forked tail chiefly of warm seas

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Carang-, Caranx, type genus + -idae

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