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scup
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scup has 4 senses
- scup(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States; Array is a part of northern porgy, northern scup, scup, stenotomus chrysops
- scup(n = noun.food) porgy - 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
- scup(n = noun.animal) southern porgy, southern scup, stenotomus aculeatus - porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America; Array is a kind of porgy
- scup(n = noun.animal) northern porgy, northern scup, stenotomus chrysops - found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish; Array is a kind of porgy
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
has parts: porgy, scup
has parts: scup
CIDE DICTIONARY
scup, n. [D. schop.].
A swing. [1913 Webster]
scup, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishcùp, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.].
A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops , or S. argyrops ), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee , paugy , porgy , scuppaug . [1913 Webster]
" The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species (Stenotomus Gardeni )."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scup, n. an E. American fish, Stenostomus chrysops, a kind of porgy.
Etymology
Narraganset mishcup thick-scaled f. mishe large + cuppi scale
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