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Serranidae

noun

marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi

• Member Meronyms:

↑serranid fish, ↑serranid, ↑Morone, ↑genus Morone, ↑sea bass, ↑Synagrops, ↑genus Synagrops, ↑Centropristis, ↑genus Centropristis, ↑Roccus, ↑genus Roccus, ↑Polyprion, ↑genus Polyprion, ↑Serranus, ↑genus Serranus, ↑Epinephelus, ↑genus Epinephelus, ↑Paranthias, ↑genus Paranthias, ↑Mycteroperca, ↑genus Mycteroperca, ↑Rypticus, ↑genus Rypticus

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\\-ranəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Serranus, type genus + -idae

: a large and widely distributed family of carnivorous marine percoid fishes having an oblong and more or less compressed body covered with ctenoid scales and including many important food and sport fishes especially of warm seas — see sea bass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.