porgy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various deep-bodied marine food fishes of the family Sparidae, especially Pagrus pagrus of Mediterranean and Atlantic waters.
• noun Any of various similar fishes.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as white perch (which see, under perch).
• noun One of several different fishes.
• noun A scaroid fish, Scarus radians.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The scup.
• noun The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
• noun The margate fish.
• noun The spadefish.
• noun Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream or scup

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
• noun important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide