Acanthocybium
noun
Acan·tho·cyb·i·um
əˌkan(t)thəˈsibēəm
: a genus (sometimes made the type of a separate family Acanthocybiidae though usually placed in Scombridae) of large predaceous marine fishes that includes the wahoo and other food and game fishes
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from acanth- + Latin cybium tunny, from Greek kybion flesh of the young tunny, from kybos piece of salted fish, cube
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
- multiple-unit
- multiple-valued
- multiplepoinding
- multipler
- multiples
- multiplest
- multiplet
- multiplets
- multiplex
- multiplexed
- multiplexer
- multiplexers
- multiplexes
- multiplexing
- multiplexor
- multiplexors
- multipliable
- multiplicable
- multiplicand
- multiplicands
- multiplicate
- multiplicates
- multiplication
- multiplication dance
- multiplication factor