a. and sb. Zool. [f. prec. + -OID.] a. adj. Related to or resembling the genus Sphyræna. b. sb. A fish of this kind.
1849–52. Owen, in Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. II. 881/1. It is in this position of the germs of the teeth that the Sphyrænoid fishes … mainly differ.
1851. Mantell, Petrifact., V. § 1. 416. Cycloid Order:… Sphyrænoids.
