SHEEPSHEAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

Synonyms:

Archosargus probatocephalus; sheepshead

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sheepshead" is a kind of...):

sparid; sparid fish (spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth)

Holonyms ("sheepshead" is a member of...):

Archosargus; genus Archosargus (a genus of Sparidae)

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