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porgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun porgy has 2 senses
- porgy(n = noun.food) scup - lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States; Array is a part of scup, southern porgy, southern scup, stenotomus aculeatus
- porgy(n = noun.animal) Array - important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide; Array is a kind of bream, sea bream
is a kind of saltwater fish
has particulars: pagrus pagrus, red porgy, calamus penna, sheepshead porgy, northern porgy, northern scup, scup, stenotomus chrysops, scup, southern porgy, southern scup, stenotomus aculeatus
CIDE DICTIONARY
porgy, n. [See Paugie.].
- The scup. [1913 Webster]
- Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the
jolthead porgy , thesheepshead porgy (Calamus penna ) of the West Indies, thegrass porgy (Calamus arctifrons ) of Florida, and thered porgy (Pagrus pagrus ) of Europe. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
porgy, n. (pl. -ies) US any usu. marine fish of the family Sparidae, used as food. Also called sea bream.
Etymology
18th c.: orig. uncert.: cf. Sp. & Port. pargo
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