Trachinidae
plural noun
Trachin·i·dae
trəˈkinəˌdē
: a family of percoid fishes that is constituted by the weevers and that is sometimes with related elongated eellike fishes is placed in a separate suborder of Percomorphi or an independent order
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Trachinus, type genus (from Medieval Latin trachina, a fish, from Greek trachys rough) + -idae