Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the characters of the Etheostomoidæ or Etheostomidæ.
  • noun A fish of the family Etheostomoidæ or Etheostomidæ. L. Agassiz.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.

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

  • adjective zoology Resembling or relating to the genus Etheostoma of fishes allied to the perch.
  • noun zoology Any of the fish of Etheostoma and related genera.

Etymologies

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Etheostoma +‎ -oid

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