| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| porgy |
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| SYLLABICATION: | por·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pôr g |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. porgy or por·gies
1. Any of various deep-bodied marine food fishes of the family Sparidae, especially a common species Pagrus pagrus of Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. 2. Any of several fishes similar to the porgy. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration of Spanish and Portuguese pargo, both alteration of Latin phager, a kind of fish, from Greek phagros, sea bream. See bhag- in Appendix I.
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