JEWFISH (jewfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: jewfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does jewfish mean? 

• JEWFISH (noun)
  The noun JEWFISH has 2 senses:

1. large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre

2. large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales

  Familiarity information: JEWFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEWFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jewfish; mulloway; Sciaena antarctica

Hypernyms ("jewfish" is a kind of...):

sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)

Holonyms ("jewfish" is a member of...):

genus Sciaena; Sciaena (type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jewfish; Mycteroperca bonaci

Hypernyms ("jewfish" is a kind of...):

grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)

Holonyms ("jewfish" is a member of...):

genus Mycteroperca; Mycteroperca (groupers)

 Context examples 

Threatened social interest species include a number of stingless bees (known locally as uruçu, mandaçaia, and jandaíra), swamp ghost crabs, blue land crabs, a freshwater shrimp locally known as pitu, mangrove root crabs, catfish, yellowmouth groupers, jewfish, hammerhead sharks, among others.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)