noun
warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
• Syn: ↑family Sciaenidae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms:
↑sciaenid fish, ↑sciaenid, ↑Equetus, ↑genus Equetus, ↑Bairdiella, ↑genus Bairdiella, ↑Sciaenops, ↑genus Sciaenops, ↑Sciaena, ↑genus Sciaena, ↑Micropogonias, ↑genus Micropogonias, ↑Umbrina, ↑genus Umbrina, ↑Menticirrhus, ↑genus Menticirrhus, ↑Genyonemus, ↑genus Genyonemus, ↑Seriphus, ↑genus Seriphus, ↑Cynoscion, ↑genus Cynoscion
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\\-nəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a large, economically important, and widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes comprising the croakers, being nearly all marine along the sandy shores of warm temperate seas, usually having the air bladder large and complicated and used to produce a sound, and including various large fishes valued as food — see sciaena
Useful english dictionary. 2012.