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Noun
S: (n) center, snapper ((football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback) "the center fumbled the handoff"
S: (n) snapper (flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas)
S: (n) pearlfish, pearl-fish (found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds)
S: (n) pike (any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere)
S: (n) sunfish, centrarchid (small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed)
S: (n) bass (nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes)
S: (n) cichlid, cichlid fish (freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums)
S: (n) snapper (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)
S: (n) grunt (medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught)
S: (n) sparid, sparid fish (spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth)
S: (n) sea bream, bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)
S: (n) sciaenid fish, sciaenid (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)
S: (n) mullet (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)
S: (n) threadfin (mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays)
S: (n) jawfish (small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes)
S: (n) stargazer (heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head)
S: (n) sand stargazer (small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey)
S: (n) blennioid fish, blennioid (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)
S: (n) goby, gudgeon (small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker)
S: (n) sleeper, sleeper goby (tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water)
S: (n) flathead (pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout)
S: (n) archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix (any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia)
S: (n) worm fish (poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies)
S: (n) surgeonfish (brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail)
S: (n) gempylid (snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide)
S: (n) cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail (long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel)
S: (n) scombroid, scombroid fish (important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters)
S: (n) groundfish, bottom fish (fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder))
S: (n) barracouta, snoek (a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa)
S: (n) shad (herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn)
S: (n) cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon (a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends)