bəˌrīkōˈmȯrˌfī noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Beryc-, Beryx + -o- + -morphi
: an order of spiny-rayed fishes that is nearly coextensive with Berycoidei and that includes a number of families of marine chiefly deepwater fishes intermediate in some respects between clupeoid fishes and the Percomorphi, some of which (as the Australian red snapper) are of considerable commercial value