Definition of Sciaena aquila

1. Noun. Large European marine food fish.

Exact synonyms: Maiger, Maigre
Generic synonyms: Sciaenid, Sciaenid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Sciaena, Sciaena

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciaena Aquila

Schweitzer
Schweitzerian
Schweiz
Schwellenangst
Schwendeman
Schwendiman
Schweninger's method
Schweninger-Buzzi anetoderma
Schwyz
Schützenfest
Sciadopityaceae
Sciadopitys
Sciadopitys verticillata
Sciaena
Sciaena antarctica
Sciaena aquila (current term)
Sciaenidae
Sciaenops
Sciaenops ocellatus
Sciaridae
Scientological
Scientologist
Scientologists
Scientology
Scilla nonscripta
Scilla verna
Scillies
Scillonian
Scilly Islander
Scilly Islanders

Literary usage of Sciaena aquila

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"Sciaena aquila, Cm. + 0 Umbrina vulgaris, Cuv. A single individual only of S. Aquila is known to have been taken on the Irish coast; about the 1st of August ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"the genus Sciaena, of which a single species, the maigre, Sciaena aquila, occasionally wanders from the seas of Southern ..."

3. The Publications of the Champlain Society by Champlain Society (1908)
"She, after 1 This valued but now rare European food fish, Sciaena aquila (figured in Wood's Illustrated Natural History, III. 265) is a distant relative of ..."

4. Respiration by John Scott Haldane (1922)
"Section through secreting gland of swim bladder of Sciaena aquila, showing the epithelial body and underlying layer of capillary network (f) with gas ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1900)
"... fish in the Murray at Goolwa, but it is also found in the Onkaparinga, Port Adelaide River, and in many other localities on our coast. 9. Sciaena aquila ..."

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