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mojarra
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mojarra has 1 sense
- mojarra(n = noun.animal) Array - small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
is a member of family gerreidae, family gerridae, gerreidae, gerridae
has particulars: gerres cinereus, yellowfin mojarra, eucinostomus gula, silver jenny
CIDE DICTIONARY
mojarra, n. [Sp.].
Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridæ , as Gerres plumieri , found from Florida to Brazil and used as food. Also, any of numerous other fishes of similar appearance but belonging to other families. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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