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Definition of Family Sciaenidae
1. Noun. Warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Sciaenid, Sciaenid Fish, Equetus, Genus Equetus, Bairdiella, Genus Bairdiella, Genus Sciaenops, Sciaenops, Genus Sciaena, Sciaena, Genus Micropogonias, Micropogonias, Genus Umbrina, Umbrina, Genus Menticirrhus, Menticirrhus, Genus Genyonemus, Genyonemus, Genus Seriphus, Seriphus, Cynoscion, Genus Cynoscion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sciaenidae
Literary usage of Family Sciaenidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The weakfish belongs to the croaker family (Sciaenidae) and has a high value as
a food fish, the flesh being rich in flavor and very tender and easily ..."
2. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and by Joseph Henry, Spencer Fullerton Baird, United States War Dept, United States Army. Corps of Engineers (1857)
"Still another << Stickleback. ' ' List of specimens. VL family Sciaenidae. 23.
LEIOSTOMUS LINEATUS, Ayres. ..."
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