centrarchid

n.

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any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

centrarchid - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed sunfish percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae - sunfish family crappie - small sunfishes of central United States rivers freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed - small brilliantly colored North American sunfish Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish, rock bass - game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes black bass - widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae