CENTRARCHID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centrarchid mean? 

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

1. small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRARCHID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

centrarchid; sunfish

Hypernyms ("centrarchid" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "centrarchid"):

sunfish (the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centrarchid"):

crappie (small sunfishes of central United States rivers)

bream; freshwater bream (any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis)

Lepomis gibbosus; pumpkinseed (small brilliantly colored North American sunfish)

Ambloplites rupestris; rock bass; rock sunfish (game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes)

black bass (widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family))

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

Centrarchidae; family Centrarchidae (sunfish family)