PORGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porgy mean? 

• PORGY (noun)
  The noun PORGY has 2 senses:

1. lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States

2. important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide

  Familiarity information: PORGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

porgy; scup

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

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("porgy" is a part of...):

scup; southern porgy; southern scup; Stenotomus aculeatus (porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

bream; sea bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)

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

Pagrus pagrus; red porgy (food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America)

Calamus penna; sheepshead porgy (from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil)

northern porgy; northern scup; scup; Stenotomus chrysops (found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish)

scup; southern porgy; southern scup; Stenotomus aculeatus (porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America)