SCIAENID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sciaenid mean? 

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

1. widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIAENID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sciaenid; sciaenid fish

Hypernyms ("sciaenid" 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 "sciaenid"):

drum; drumfish (small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise)

jewfish; mulloway; Sciaena antarctica (large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre)

maiger; maigre; Sciaena aquila (large European marine food fish)

croaker (any of several fishes that make a croaking noise)

whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)

sea trout (any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters)

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

family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)