Definition of Orthopristis

1. Noun. A genus of Haemulidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Orthopristis
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Haemulidae, Haemulidae
Member holonyms: Hogfish, Orthopristis Chrysopterus, Pigfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthopristis

Orth's fixative
Orth's stain
Orthilia
Orthodox
Orthodox Catholic Church
Orthodox Church
Orthodox Churches
Orthodox Jew
Orthodox Jews
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodoxy
Orthomyxoviridae
Orthonectida
Orthopoxviridae
Orthopristis (current term)
Orthopristis chrysopterus
Orthotomus
Orthotomus sutorius
Ortilis vetula macalli
Orton
Ortonesque
Orudis
Orudis KT
Orunmila
Oruvail
Orville
Orville Wright
Orwell
Orwellian

Literary usage of Orthopristis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE PIG-FISH (Orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"THE PIG FISH (Orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus Orthopristis Girard. Pig-fishes. Rather small fishes with oblong, ... (Orthopristis, straight saw, in allusion to the evenly serrated preopercle. ..."

4. The Fishes of Panama Bay by Charles Henry Gilbert, Edwin Chapin Starks (1904)
"Orthopristis brevipinnis (Steindachner). PLATE XV, FIG. 30. ... The scales in the species of Orthopristis are more nearly uniform in size than current ..."

5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"GENUS Orthopristis GIRARD The ... Colour, pearly gray, darker above; each scale of back and side with a Orthopristis forbesi is known only from Albemarle ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"I. Orthopristis.—Mouth small ; upper and lower jaws provided with small, conical teeth. Edge of preopercle nearly straight and finely serrated. ..."

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