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PINFISH (pinfishes)
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Irregular inflected form: pinfishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does pinfish mean?
• PINFISH (noun)
The noun PINFISH has 1 sense:
1. similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
Familiarity information: PINFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Lagodon rhomboides; pinfish; sailor's-choice; squirrelfish
Hypernyms ("pinfish" is a kind of...):
sparid; sparid fish (spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth)
Holonyms ("pinfish" is a member of...):
genus Lagodon; Lagodon (a genus of Sparidae)
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