Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small spiny-finned marine fishes of the family Sparidae, especially Lagodon rhomboides of North America, found in coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sparoid fish, Lagodon rhomboides, related to the scup and sheeps-head, common along the southern coast of the United States.
- noun A sparoid fish, Diplodus holbrooki, like the Lagodon rhomboides, but with entire teeth.
- noun A small sunfish of the United States, as the copper-nosed bream, Lepomis pallidus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sailor's choice (
Diplodus rhomboides syn.Lagodon rhomboides ). - noun The salt-water bream (
Diplodus Holbrooki ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lagodon rhomboides, a
saltwater sparid fish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bait: live pinfish. live shrimp. live mullet if you can find it.
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Bait: live pinfish. live shrimp. live mullet if you can find it.
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This mishap occurred at Paradise Beach, near Pensacola, Florida, fishing on a dock for pinfish.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The little pinfish had turned him into an entomologist.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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With a dozen more fish, I add three more species — pinfish, margate, and bluestriped grunt — to my list.
The Mid-Life Slam 2009
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One of the enduring memories of my childhood is from the time I lived in St. Petersburg 1977-80, fishing with my grandfather off the dock behind his apartment on Snell Isle and feeding the pinfish we caught -- it was almost always pinfish -- to the pelicans and the occasional blue heron.
Don't feed the pelicans Sinfonian 2008
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TIP: Many larger species -- tarpon, barracuda, grouper -- feed on baitfish, and pinfish are tops.
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006
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Joe Toth's beautiful Florida Bay backcounty snook, caught on a live pinfish.
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006
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Transient species that move in and out of the estuary include spot, pinfish, menhaden, flounder, white and striped mullet, and red drum (the official mascot of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve).
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
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Daily Schadenfreude "award," having previously been "honored" for employing illegal immigrants at his home the very first DS award and for flip-flopping like a pinfish on a dock over gay rights.
Today's Daily Schadenfreude Sinfonian 2007
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