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CENTRARCHID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
Synonyms:
centrarchid; sunfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("centrarchid" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "centrarchid"):
sunfish (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centrarchid"):
crappie (small sunfishes of central United States rivers)
bream; freshwater bream (any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis)
Lepomis gibbosus; pumpkinseed (small brilliantly colored North American sunfish)
Ambloplites rupestris; rock bass; rock sunfish (game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes)
black bass (widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family))
Holonyms ("centrarchid" is a member of...):
Centrarchidae; family Centrarchidae (sunfish family)
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