MENTICIRRHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Menticirrhus mean? 

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

1. kingfishes; whiting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTICIRRHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kingfishes; whiting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Menticirrhus; Menticirrhus

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Menticirrhus"):

whiting (any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters)

kingfish (any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast)

king whiting; Menticirrhus americanus (whiting of the southeastern coast of North America)

Menticirrhus littoralis; silver whiting (a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States)

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

family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)