sciaenid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *sciaenid*:
NOUN	animal	sciaenid, sciaenid fish	widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound

English > *sciaenid*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound.
Synonym	sciaenid fish
Member of	Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae	warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
Narrower	croaker	Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise
	drum, drumfish	small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
	maigre, maiger, Sciaena aquila	large European marine food fish
	mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica	large important food fish of Australia
	sea trout	Any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
	whiting	Any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
Broader	percoid fish, percoid, percoidean	Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Spanish	sciaenid

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