Sparidae

Sparidae
noun
porgies; scups
Syn: ↑family Sparidae
Hypernyms: ↑fish family
Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
Member Meronyms:

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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

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