Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Serranidæ; the sea-perches or sea-bass.
- noun [lowercase] A member of this genus: as, the lettered serranus, S. scriba; the smooth serranus, S. cabrilla.
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- noun type genus of the Serranidae: mostly small Pacific sea basses
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Examples
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The following are deep-sea fishes — the trygon, the cartilaginous fishes, the white conger, the serranus, the erythrinus, and the glaucus.
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Myxinoides, many fishes of the perch-type (serranus), and some of the
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Aristotle further states that some kinds of fishes (of the genus serranus) are hermaphrodites, each individual having both male and female organs and being able to fertilise itself; this, also, has been recently confirmed.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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On the lagunas swim large flocks of Quiullas (_Larus serranus_, Tsch.), white mews, with black heads and red beaks, and the gigantic water-hen
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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