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PORGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("porgy" is a kind of...):
bream; sea bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porgy"):
Pagrus pagrus; red porgy (food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America)
Calamus penna; sheepshead porgy (from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil)
northern porgy; northern scup; scup; Stenotomus chrysops (found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish)
scup; southern porgy; southern scup; Stenotomus aculeatus (porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
Synonyms:
porgy; scup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("porgy" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Holonyms ("porgy" is a part of...):
scup; southern porgy; southern scup; Stenotomus aculeatus (porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America)
