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GENUS MENTICIRRHUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Menticirrhus mean?
• GENUS MENTICIRRHUS (noun)
The noun GENUS MENTICIRRHUS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS MENTICIRRHUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Kingfishes; whiting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Menticirrhus; Menticirrhus
Hypernyms ("genus Menticirrhus" is a kind of...):
fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
Meronyms (members of "genus Menticirrhus"):
whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)
kingfish (any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast)
king whiting; Menticirrhus americanus (whiting of the southeastern coast of North America)
Menticirrhus littoralis; silver whiting (a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States)
Holonyms ("genus Menticirrhus" is a member of...):
family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)
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