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PINFISH
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Irregular inflected form: pinfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
Synonyms:
Lagodon rhomboides; pinfish; sailor's-choice; squirrelfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pinfish" is a kind of...):
sparid; sparid fish (spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth)
Holonyms ("pinfish" is a member of...):
genus Lagodon; Lagodon (a genus of Sparidae)