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

  • noun Any of various fishes of the family Sparidae, which includes the porgies and the sea breams.

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  • noun Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae

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  • noun spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Sparidae, family name, from Sparus, type genus, from Latin, a kind of fish, from Greek sparos.]

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