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Definition of Seriola

1. Noun. A genus of Carangidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seriola

Literary usage of Seriola

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

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Pyloric appendages in great number. Inhabitants of nearly all the temperate and tropical seas. 1. Seriola dumerilii. Caranx dumerilii, Risso ..."

2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Seriola cosmopolita, Cuc. fy Vol. ix. p. 219. pi. 259 ; Dekay, New f. 1 ; Guichen. Poles, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 117. ..."

3. Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"... Chapter XXV The Tribe of Seriola THE angler who has fished in Florida from Palm Beach to the Gulf has an especial pride in his ..."

4. Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"... Chapter XXV The Tribe of Seriola THE angler who has fished in Florida from Palm Beach to the Gulf has an especial pride in his amber-jacks—one of the ..."

5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Another, Seriola cosmopolita, Cuv.; Scomber chloris, Bl., 339, is noticed as one of the few fishes common to both oceans. ..."

6. Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1883)
"This shows how confusing and misleading these local names are. Our king-fish belongs to a genus called " yellow-tails " in Europe. This is Seriola ..."

7. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Seriola dorsalis is the noted yellow-tail of California, ... Seriola zonata is the rudder- fish, or shark's pilot, common on our New England coast. ..."

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