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Definition of Sciaenoids
1. sciaenoid [n] - See also: sciaenoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciaenoids
Literary usage of Sciaenoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"The sciaenoids present mostly a general external appearance, not unlike that ...
The palatines and vomer are toothless, a character by which sciaenoids can ..."
2. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"These names, " Croaker," " Drum," " Thunder-pumper," etc., refer to the croaking
or grunting noise made by this species in common with most sciaenoids. ..."
3. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"... sciaenoids should be considered as distinct. Indeed, at different times, in
two editions of the same work, Cuvier in his Animal Kingdom has successively ..."
4. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"... sciaenoids should be considered as distinct. Indeed, at different times, in
two editions of the same work, Cuvier in his Animal Kingdom has successively ..."
5. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"... sciaenoids should be considered as distinct. Indeed, at different times, in
two editions of the same work, Cuvier in his Animal Kingdom has successively ..."
6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"... under the form either of a small exposed row of vascular filaments, like a
uniserial gill (as in all sciaenoids and many other Acantho- pteri, ..."
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