MOJARRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mojarra mean? 

• MOJARRA (noun)
  The noun MOJARRA has 1 sense:

1. small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters

  Familiarity information: MOJARRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOJARRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mojarra"):

Gerres cinereus; yellowfin mojarra (popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil)

Eucinostomus gula; silver jenny (silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic)

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

family Gerreidae; family Gerridae; Gerreidae; Gerridae (mojarras)