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Sparidae

noun

porgies; scups

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

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

• Member Meronyms:

↑sparid, ↑sparid fish, ↑Pagrus, ↑genus Pagrus, ↑Pagellus, ↑genus Pagellus, ↑Archosargus, ↑genus Archosargus, ↑Lagodon, ↑genus Lagodon, ↑Calamus, ↑genus Calamus, ↑Chrysophrys, ↑genus Chrysophrys, ↑Stenotomus, ↑genus Stenotomus

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\\-rəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a large and widely distributed family of deep-bodied marine percoid fishes including the porgies, scups, and sheepsheads that are related to the grunts and snappers but have some of the teeth along the sides of the jaw transformed into large blunt molars — see sea bream

Useful english dictionary. 2012.