Fish Often Called Snapper Crossword Clue

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- Common european fish
- Fish
- Fish, often called snapper
- Food fish
- Freshwater fish
- Pond fish
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

- A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
- What may be got without skill or merit.
- A person easily duped or cheated.
- The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.
- A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
- To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.

- A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

- Possible angler’s catch
- A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.
- A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.
- The black grouper of Florida and Texas.
- A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

- Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.
- Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter.

- Edible flatfish
- European fish
- Flatfish
- A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
- Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
- The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
- The trigger fish.

- A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.

- Aquarium creature
- A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.
- A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

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