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
- hornblende
- hornblendes
- hornblendic
- hornblendite
- hornblendization
- hornbook
- hornbooks
- Hornchurch
- horndog
- horned
- horned adder
- horned bladderwort
- horned cattle
- horned crab
- horned dace
- horned frog
- horned grebe
- horned hazel
- horned hog
- horned hummer
- horned iguana
- horned in
- horned lark
- horned lizard
- horned milfoil