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Definition of Morone americana
1. Noun. Small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams.
Exact synonyms: Silver Perch, White Perch
Generic synonyms: Serranid, Serranid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Morone, Morone
Generic synonyms: Serranid, Serranid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Morone, Morone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morone Americana
Literary usage of Morone americana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"morone americana. Yarrow, 1877, 211; New and Neuse rivers. ... morone americana.
This excellent little fish of the fresh, brackish, and salt waters of our ..."
2. The Basses: Fresh-water and Marine by William Charles Harris, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Louis Rhead (1905)
"In 1814 Dr. Mitchill established the genus Morone for the same fish, and now our
white perch is referred to in the books under the name morone americana. ..."
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