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Type Words
Synonyms scup
Type of saltwater fish
Type Words
Type of bream, sea bream
Has types northern porgy, northern scup, pagrus pagrus, red porgy, scup, stenotomus chrysops, calamus penna, sheepshead porgy, southern porgy, southern scup, stenotomus aculeatus

Examples of porgy

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Porgy calls for his goat cart, and resolves to leave Catfish Row to find her.
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Their largest porgy measured 16 inches and was taken on a strip of calamari.
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Porgy and Bimbo are long gone, and my grandmother died many years ago, far too young.
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Deckhands informed Hyde it was a whitebone porgy, a bottom-feeder in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Porgy is the first major role for Louisiana-born Donnie Ray Albert, 26.
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Porgy and Bess has also been staged as a musical rather than as an opera.
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Porgy, a disabled beggar, enters on his goat cart to organize the game.
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These big members of the porgy family may not have the cachet of speckled trout or redfish.
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He caught several fishing including a 35-inch bass, some 6-pound blues and a 16-inch porgy.
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  • Lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
  • Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
  • Porgy is a novel written by American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which debuted in 1927.
  • (Porgies) The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called breams and porgies (North America). The sheepshead, scup, and red sea bream are species in this family. ...
  • Also know as "Scup" or "Porgie." These saltwater fish are generally lean, and coarse-grained. Porgy is often grilled, poached, and pan-fried.