sparoidadj.n.
/ˈsparɔɪd/, /ˈspeɪrɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈspɛˌrɔɪd/ Ichthyology.
A. adj.
a. Of or belonging to, characteristic of, the Sparidæ or sea-bream family.
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sparoid1836
1836 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana III. 71 No one Sparoid species is known to exist on both sides of the Atlantic.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 310 The genus Pentapus is founded upon certain Sparoid fishes found in the Indian Seas.
1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 220 The Sparoid Family, or Sea Breams.
b. Of scales: (see quots.).
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1859 J. Richardson Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Fishes (ed. 3) II. 135 Sparoid scales are..thin, broader than long, with the centre of growth near their posterior border.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 46 Scales, the free surface of which is spiny, and which have no denticulation on the Margin, have been termed Sparoid scales.
B. n.
A fish of this family.
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sparoid1842
panga1902
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1136/2 Sparoids, Sparoides, the name of a tribe of Acanthopterygian fishes, of which the genus Sparus is the type.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions v. §1. 412 Sparoids, or Breams.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 394 Californian Sparoids.
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