centrarchid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *centrarchid*:
NOUN	animal	centrarchid, sunfish	small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster

English > *centrarchid*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies / crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
Synonym	sunfish
Member of	Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae	sunfish family
Parts	sunfish	The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
Narrower	black bass	widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
	crappie	small sunfishes of central United States rivers
	freshwater bream, bream	Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales
	pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus	small brilliantly colored North American sunfish
	rock bass, rock sunfish, Ambloplites rupestris	game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
Broader	percoid fish, percoid, percoidean	Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Spanish	centrarchid
Catalan	centrarchid

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