Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Stromatcidæ, in which the ventral fins are lost in the adult, the caudal peduncle is not-keeled, and the gill-membranes are free from the isthmus.
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In the genus stromateus, whose bodies are very flat and oval, I saw some of the most brilliant colours, carrying their dorsal fin like a scythe; an excellent eating fish, which, dried and pickled, is known by the name of Karawade; then some tranquebars, belonging to the genus apsiphoroides, whose body is covered with a shell cuirass of eight longitudinal plates.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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