Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Centrarchidæ.
- noun A fish of the family Centrarchidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of the Centrarchidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
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Examples
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Analysis of morphological groupings using ANOPA, a pattern recognition and multivariate statistical method: a case Study involving centrarchid fishes.
All that matters 2005
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By mapping these measurements onto the centrarchid family tree, together with data on what each fish eats, the researchers were able to reconstruct how diet and head shape have changed over time.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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To find out, the researchers examined museum specimens representing 29 species of centrarchid fishes.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The study, Identification of centrarchid hepcidins and evidence that 17â-estradiol disrupts constitutive expression of hepcidin-1 and inducible expression of hepcidin-2 in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), was just published in the journal, Fish & Shellfish Immunology.
innovations-report 2009
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