noun
small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
• Syn: ↑sunfish
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Hyponyms:
↑crappie, ↑freshwater bream, ↑bream, ↑pumpkinseed, ↑Lepomis gibbosus, ↑rock bass, ↑rock sunfish, ↑Ambloplites rupestris, ↑black bass
• Member Holonyms: ↑Centrarchidae, ↑family Centrarchidae
• Part Meronyms: ↑sunfish
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\\sen.ˈträrkə̇d, -ȧk-, -ˌkid\ noun (-s)Etymology: New Latin Centrarchidae
: a fish of the family Centrarchidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.