Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A grayish grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera) of the western Atlantic Ocean, often used as bait.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of various fishes which make a grunting noise when taken out of the water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also
hogfish . - noun A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also
hogfish . - noun A
sculpin - noun Any of several other fishes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun found around the Great Barrier Reef
- noun found from Long Island southward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In the vicinity of Wilmington, considerable line fishing is done at times on the blackfish banks located several miles off shore, sea bass, grunts and pigfish being the species taken.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.
Real Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890
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"After the seaweed beds died off, horse mackerels and striped pigfish quickly swam away," says fisherman Mitsugi Tomita, 70.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Asahi Shimbun: none g 2010
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Trout fishing is holding steady with live pigfish the best bait.
TCPalm Stories 2010
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Keying on finding schools, his anglers started casting live pinfish, pigfish and croakers and caught about 20 or 25 trout, some oversized and some small, he said.
News 2010
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"After the seaweed beds died off, horse mackerels and striped pigfish quickly swam away," says fisherman Mitsugi Tomita, 70.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Asahi Shimbun: none g 2010
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