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WRECKFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: wreckfishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

Synonyms:

Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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)

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

genus Polyprion; Polyprion (wreckfish)

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