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    SERRANID FISH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal watersplay

    Synonyms:

    serranid; serranid fish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("serranid fish" is a kind of...):

    percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serranid fish"):

    Morone americana; silver perch; white perch (small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams)

    Morone interrupta; yellow bass (North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass)

    sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

    soapfish (fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America)

    Holonyms ("serranid fish" is a member of...):

    family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)

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