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noun
A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, both with silvery-white with black speckles and prized as gamefish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
small sunfishes of central United States rivers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sunfish, centrarchid
Narrower terms: black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus, white crappie, Pomoxis annularis
noun
small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sunfish
History
Borrowed from French crapet,crapet-soleil (“sunfish”).
