SCIAENA ANTARCTICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sciaena antarctica mean? 

• SCIAENA ANTARCTICA (noun)
  The noun SCIAENA ANTARCTICA has 1 sense:

1. large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre

  Familiarity information: SCIAENA ANTARCTICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIAENA ANTARCTICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jewfish; mulloway; Sciaena antarctica

Hypernyms ("Sciaena antarctica" is a kind of...):

sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)

Holonyms ("Sciaena antarctica" is a member of...):

genus Sciaena; Sciaena (type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakers)