Definition of Stenotomus

1. Noun. Scups.

Exact synonyms: Genus Stenotomus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sparidae, Sparidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stenotomus

Sten guns
Stendhal
Stendhalian
Stengel
Stennian
Stenocarpus
Stenocarpus salignus
Stenocarpus sinuatus
Stenochlaena
Stenopelmatidae
Stenopelmatus
Stenopelmatus fuscus
Stenopterygius quadrisicissus
Stenotaphrum
Stenotaphrum secundatum
Stenotomus
Stenotomus aculeatus
Stenotomus chrysops
Stenotus
Stenotus acaulis
Stentoronic
Stepanakert
Stepford
Steph
Stephane Grappelli
Stephane Mallarme
Stephanie
Stephanie Graf
Stephanies
Stephanomeria

Literary usage of Stenotomus

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 SCUP (stenotomus chrysops) Another fish of the ... A kindred species, the fair maid (stenotomus aculeatus), is common from Cape Hatteras south- ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"THE SCUP (stenotomus chrysops). ... stenotomus aculeatus), is common from Cape Hatteras south- ... stenotomus ..."

3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"A kindred species, the fair maid (stenotomus aculeatus), is common from Cape Hatteras south- ... stenotomus ..."

4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"stenotomus chrysops. This scup is found coastwise from Massachusetts to South Carolina and is an abundant and important food fish in the northern part of ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"It is especially liked in Southern markets, where it is called porgy, as also is a Southern congener (stenotomus aculeatus). Compare PORGY. ..."

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