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BLUEGILL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bluegill mean?
• BLUEGILL (noun)
The noun BLUEGILL has 1 sense:
1. important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States
Familiarity information: BLUEGILL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bluegill; Lepomis macrochirus
Hypernyms ("bluegill" is a kind of...):
bream; freshwater bream (any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis)
Holonyms ("bluegill" is a member of...):
genus Lepomis; Lepomis (bream)
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