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Examples: macropod ("big foot"); Macrodontophion ("big tooth snake"); Macrogryphosaurus ("big enigmatic lizard")-maia, maia-: Pronunciation: /meiə/ Origin: Ancient Greek: Μαῖα (Maîa). Meaning: Originally the mother of Hermes in Greek mythology and the goddess of growth in Roman mythology, alternatively spelled Maja.
The fish's name comes from the Portuguese and Spanish bonito (there's no evidence of the origin of the name), identical to the adjective meaning 'pretty'. However, the noun referring to the fish seems to come from the low and medieval Latin form boniton, a word with a strange structure and an obscure origin, related to the word byza, a possible borrowing from the Greek βῦζα, 'owl'.
Scomberomorini is a tribe of ray-finned saltwater bony fishes that is commonly known as the Spanish mackerels, seerfishes or seer fish. This tribe is a subset of the mackerel family (Scombridae) – a family that it shares with three sister tribes, the tunas , mackerels , and bonitos , and the butterfly kingfish .
The suffix -uco/-uca is often used in Cantabria. [85] The suffix -illo/-illa is especially common as a diminutive in Andalusia and southern Spain more generally. [86] [85] In the Spanishes spoken in the Americas, however, -illo often also carries a pejorative connotations. [87] The noun hombrecillo, for example, can be glossed as 'insignificant ...
This fish can range up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) and weigh 7 kg (15 lb). [73] Seahorses and allies (Syngnathiformes) The largest of this diverse order is the red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba), a long, thin species found in all tropical oceans. This fish can reach a length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of 4.65 kg (10.3 lb). [73]
African scat (fish), Scatophagus tetracanthus; Ichthyophaga, the ("fish-eating") sea eagle: phalloides: G: like a phallus: Amanita phalloides, the death cap, a poisonous basidiomycete fungus species: phenolicus: L: able to degrade phenol: Pseudoalteromonas phenolica: phenolicus – phenolica – phenolicum: philippinensis L from the Philippines
from rumba synomyn of Big-Party rincon from rincón, "meadow" or "corner-side" robalo from Spanish róbalo meaning "bass, sea wolf," a tropical marine game and fish food roble from Spanish roble, "oak tree" < latin roboris. rodeo from rodeo and verb rodear (to go around) or "go-after and animal" rueda from rueda, wheel or circle rumba
All the gars are relatively large fish, but the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) is the largest. The largest alligator gar ever caught and officially recorded was 8 ft 5 in (2.6 m) long, weighed 327 lb (148 kg), and was 47 in (120 cm) around the girth. [ 28 ]