skipjack
1. medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna • Syn: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda • Hypernyms: bonito • Member Holonyms: Sarda, genus Sarda 2. able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound • Syn: click beetle, snapping beetle • Hypernyms: elaterid beetle, elater, elaterid 3. oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito • Syn: skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis • Hypernyms: scombroid, scombroid fish • Member Holonyms: Euthynnus, genus Euthynnus
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