'Caranx' definitions:
Definition of 'Caranx'
From: WordNet
noun
Type genus of the Carangidae [syn: Caranx, genus Caranx]
Definition of 'Caranx'
From: GCIDE
- Caranx \Ca"ranx\ (k[=a]"r[a^][ng]ks), n. (Zool.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'caranx'
From: GCIDE
- Carangidae \Carangidae\ n.
- 1. large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes allied to the mackerels, with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas; it includes the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
- Syn: family Carangidae. [WordNet 1.5]