Definition of Pagellus

1. Noun. Sea breams.

Exact synonyms: Genus Pagellus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sparidae, Sparidae
Member holonyms: European Sea Bream, Pagellus Centrodontus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagellus

Padre
Padua
Paducah
Paducahs
Padykula-Herman stain
PaeR7I invertase
Paeonia
Paeoniaceae
Pagan
Paganini
Page
Page Down
Page Downs
Page Up
Page Ups
Pagellus (current term)
Pagellus centrodontus
Pagenstecher's circle
Paget
Paget's cells
Paget's disease
Paget's disease of the nipple
Paget-Eccleston stain
Paget-von Schrotter syndrome
Pagnolesque
Pago Pago
Pagophila
Pagophila eburnea
Pagophilus
Pagophilus groenlandicus

Literary usage of Pagellus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1859)
"Pagellus, Cur. Sf Vol. vi. p. 169. The anterior teeth card-like, without canines, ... 3; Pani. Fishes, Firth of Forth, p. 43. pi. 27. Pagellus rostratus ..."

2. The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof: A Report of the Austro by G. L. Faber (1883)
"Pagellus ERYTHRINUS, C. & V. The Erythrinus, the Red, or Spanish Sea Bream. ... General, but scarce, on rocky beds. 91. Pagellus MORMYRUS, C. & V. Der ..."

3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"13 ; the Axillary Sea-Bream (Pagellus Owenii), No. I 5 ; and the Acarne (Pagellus ... The cast of an unusually fine example of the latter form, Pagellus ..."

4. The Technologist (1861)
"In both instances the appellation is derived from the Pagrus vulgaris of the Mediterranean, to which the Pagellus is closely allied. ..."

5. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"The Pagellus erythrinus has the origin of the lateral line slightly bent, and the anterior part of the orbit placed behind the posterior angle of the ..."

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