First Known Use: 1852
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scombroid
noun scom·broid \ˈskäm-ˌbrȯid\
Definition of SCOMBROID
: any of a suborder (Scombroidei) of marine bony fishes (as mackerels, tunas, albacores, bonitos, and swordfishes) of great economic importance as food fishes
— scombroid adjective
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Origin of SCOMBROID
ultimately from Greek skombros mackerel
Rhymes with SCOMBROID
android, avoid, chancroid, colloid, conoid, crinoid, cuboid, cycloid, deltoid, dendroid, devoid, discoid, factoid, fibroid, fungoid, ganoid, globoid, hydroid, hypnoid, keloid, mastoid, mucoid, ovoid, prismoid, pygmoid, rhizoid, rhomboid, schizoid, sigmoid, spheroid, steroid, styloid, tabloid, thalloid, thyroid, toroid, toxoid, trochoid, typhoid, Veddoid, viroid
Medical Dictionary
scombroid
noun scom·broid \ˈskäm-ˌbrȯid\
Medical Definition of SCOMBROID
: any of a suborder (Scombroidea) of marine bony fishes (as mackerels, tunas, albacores, bonitos, and swordfishes) which are of great economic importance as food fishes and are sometimes a source of poisoning due to heat-stable toxins produced by bacterial action on fish with dark meat
—scombroid adjective
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