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pore fungus | pore mushroom | pore over | poreblind | porer | porgy | porifera | poriferan | poriferata | poriferous | poriform

porgy

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por=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

porgyn. [See Paugie.].
  •  The scup.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

porgy, n. (pl. -ies) US any usu. marine fish of the family Sparidae, used as food. Also called sea bream.

Etymology
18th c.: orig. uncert.: cf. Sp. & Port. pargo

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