Definition of Pargos

1. pargo [n] - See also: pargo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pargos

parged
parges
parget
pargeted
pargeter
pargeters
pargeting
pargetings
pargetry
pargets
pargetted
pargetting
parging
pargings
pargo
pargos (current term)
pargyline
pargyline hydrochloride
pargylines
parhelia
parheliacal
parhelic
parhelic circle
parhelic ring
parhelion
parhelions
parhelium
pari-
pari-mutuel machine

Literary usage of Pargos

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... The Snappers or pargos Body oblong, compressed, the back somewhat elevated; head long, naked above, except for a broad oblique band of scales on nape; ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... known in America as snappers or pargos. In these fishes the maxillary slips along its edge into a sheath formed by the broad ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... known in America as snappers or pargos. In these fishes the maxillary slips along its edge into a sheath formed by the broad ..."

4. The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Clements Robert Markham, Basil Harrington Soulsby, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza, Juan de Torquemada, Luis Vaez de Torres, Diego de Prado y Tobar, Fernando de Castro (1904)
"Cook then refers to the effect of eating pargos on the crews of Quiros, as described by Torquemada, quoted by Dalrymple, vol. i, p. 140. ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1808)
"It is a curious circumstance, and, I imagine, illustrative of the present observation, that the poisoned sparus pargos was caught at ..."

6. Costa Rica by Stéphane G.-Marceau, Francis Giguere, Yves Seguin (2000)
"Bungalows are clean, share a big shaded terrace, and surround the garden. Friendly staff. Playa Negra tima Los pargos de Playa Negra m pb ..."

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