Akademik

Menticirrhus

noun

kingfishes; whiting

• Syn: ↑genus Menticirrhus

• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sciaenidae, ↑family Sciaenidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑whiting, ↑kingfish, ↑king whiting, ↑Menticirrhus americanus, ↑silver whiting, ↑Menticirrhus littoralis

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\\ˌmentəˈsirəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from menti- (from Latin mentum chin) + -cirrhus; from the appendage on the lower jaw — more at mental

: a genus of No. American food fishes (family Sciaenidae) comprising the whitings

Useful english dictionary. 2012.