English > porgy: 2 senses > noun 2, animalMeaning | Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide / worldwide. |
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Narrower | red porgy, Pagrus pagrus | food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America |
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scup, southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus | porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America |
scup, northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops | Found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine |
sheepshead porgy, Calamus penna | From Florida and Bahamas to Brazil |
Broader | sea bream, bream | Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae |
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