"sparoid" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”) + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|sparus||gilt-head, a certain kind of fish}} Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”), {{suffix|en||-oid|pos2=suffix forming an adjective|t2=resembling}} + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sparoid (not comparable)
  1. Of or pertaining to the family, Sparidae, of deep-bodied, spinous-finned marine fish, including the sea bream, porgy, scup, and sheepshead. Tags: not-comparable Categories (lifeform): Sparids
    Sense id: en-sparoid-en-adj-9mEofQwz Disambiguation of Sparids: 47 53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -oid, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -oid: 68 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 72 28

Noun

Forms: sparoids [plural]
Etymology: From Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”) + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|sparus||gilt-head, a certain kind of fish}} Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”), {{suffix|en||-oid|pos2=suffix forming an adjective|t2=resembling}} + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sparoid (plural sparoids)
  1. Any fish of the family Sparidae. Categories (lifeform): Sparids
    Sense id: en-sparoid-en-noun-jv6zNohE Disambiguation of Sparids: 47 53

Inflected forms

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