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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several slender marine fishes of the family Gempylidae, especially Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a dark brown oily fish of tropical and temperate waters worldwide.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Cuban name for a scombroid fish of elongate body and swift movements, especially the species Ruvettus pretiosus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several perciform fish of the family Gempylidae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, student (from the spectaclelike rings around its eyes), from Late Latin scholāris, of a school; see scholar.]

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