sailor's-choice

sail·or's-choice (slrz-chois)

n. pl. sailor's-choice

Any of various fishes of the North American Atlantic coast, as the pinfish or the grunt Haemulon parrai of southerly waters.

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sailor's-choice

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sailor's-choice - similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, squirrelfish sparid, sparid fish - spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth genus Lagodon, Lagodon - a genus of Sparidae
	2.	sailor's-choice - a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico Haemulon parra, sailors choice grunt - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught genus Haemulon, Haemulon - type genus of the Haemulidae