-nəˌdē noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Sciaena, type genus + -idae
: a large, economically important, and widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes comprising the croakers, being nearly all marine along the sandy shores of warm temperate seas, usually having the air bladder large and complicated and used to produce a sound, and including various large fishes valued as food — see sciaena