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A name for various fishes: (a) U.S. a marine food fish of the family Serranidæ; cf. jewfish, n.; (b) U.S. a sciænoid fish, Cynoscion nobilis of…
Chiefly U.S. regional. Any of several unrelated, chiefly freshwater, fishes; esp. the bowfin, Amia calva, and the central mudminnow, Umbra limi.
Subcategories:
— member of (4)
— superorder Ganoidei (12)
— infraclass Chondrostei (28)
— infraclass Neopterygii (9)