centrarchid

Definitions of centrarchid

1. noun

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

   types:

   crappie

   small sunfishes of central United States rivers

   bream, freshwater 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 bass, rock sunfish

   game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

   black bass

   widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)

   Abramis brama, European bream

   European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food

   Pomoxis nigromaculatus, black crappie

   a crappie that is black

   Pomoxis annularis, white crappie

   a crappie that is white

   Lepomis macrochirus, bluegill

   important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States

   Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish, stumpknocker

   inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish

   Kentucky black bass, Micropterus pseudoplites, spotted black bass

   a variety of black bass

   Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass

   a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye

   Micropterus salmoides, largemouth, largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass

   a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes