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Alligator
noun · 78% connection
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Anchovy
noun · 78% connection
A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterrane…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Bluefish
noun · 78% connection
A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Bonito
noun · 78% connection
A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Botfly
noun · 78% connection
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Caranx
noun · 78% connection
A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Catfish
noun · 78% connection
A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Cero
noun · 78% connection
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less common…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Chub
noun · 78% connection
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Embiotocoid
noun · 78% connection
One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Gens
adjective · 78% connection
A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
Gurnet
noun · 78% connection
One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, applied, several, large, fishes.
