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SCIAENID
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
Synonyms:
sciaenid; sciaenid fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sciaenid" 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 "sciaenid"):
drum; drumfish (small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise)
jewfish; mulloway; Sciaena antarctica (large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre)
maiger; maigre; Sciaena aquila (large European marine food fish)
croaker (any of several fishes that make a croaking noise)
whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)
sea trout (any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters)
Holonyms ("sciaenid" is a member of...):
family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)
