SCOPELOID

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. (Zoöl.)

2.
a.

Any fish of the family Scopelidæ.


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