SERRANID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serranid mean? 

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

1. marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERRANID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

serranid; serranid fish

Hypernyms ("serranid" 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 "serranid"):

Morone americana; silver perch; white perch (small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams)

Morone interrupta; yellow bass (North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass)

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)

soapfish (fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America)

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

family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)