Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a fish of the genus Serranus; of or pertaining to the Serranidæ in a broad sense.
- noun A member of the Serranidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any fish of the family
Serranidæ , which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
fish of thefamily Serranidae , which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.
Etymologies
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From New Latin Serranus + -oid (“resembling”), this being the typical genus.
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