scombroid fish

Questions about scombroid fish

What does scombroid fish mean?

scombroid fish means "important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters".

What is another word for scombroid fish?

Close synonyms include scombroid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scombroid fish a common word?

scombroid fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.