| Noun | 1. | serranid fish - marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters family Serranidae, Serranidae - marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish Morone americana, white perch, silver perch - small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams Morone interrupta, yellow bass - North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin soapfish - fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America |