POLYPRION AMERICANUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polyprion americanus mean? 

• POLYPRION AMERICANUS (noun)
  The noun POLYPRION AMERICANUS has 1 sense:

1. brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

  Familiarity information: POLYPRION AMERICANUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYPRION AMERICANUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish

Hypernyms ("Polyprion americanus" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("Polyprion americanus" is a member of...):

genus Polyprion; Polyprion (wreckfish)