Acanthocybium
noun
Acan·tho·cyb·i·um
əˌkan(t)thəˈsibēəm
: a genus (sometimes made the type of a separate family Acanthocybiidae though usually placed in Scombridae) of large predaceous marine fishes that includes the wahoo and other food and game fishes
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from acanth- + Latin cybium tunny, from Greek kybion flesh of the young tunny, from kybos piece of salted fish, cube
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above