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

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