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    GENUS MENTICIRRHUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Kingfishes; whitingplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Menticirrhus; Menticirrhus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("genus Menticirrhus" is a kind of...):

    fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Menticirrhus"):

    whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)

    kingfish (any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast)

    king whiting; Menticirrhus americanus (whiting of the southeastern coast of North America)

    Menticirrhus littoralis; silver whiting (a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States)

    Holonyms ("genus Menticirrhus" is a member of...):

    family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)

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