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SCARUS

\skˈɑːɹəs], \skˈɑːɹəs], \s_k_ˈɑː_ɹ_ə_s]\

Definitions of SCARUS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; - called also parrot fish.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; - called also parrot fish.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

sk[=a]'rus, n. a genus of fishes including the parrot-wrasses. [ScaridÃ¦.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Kinds of bright-hued fish with parrotlike beak (also parrotfish) of wrasse family. [Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

[L., Gr.] (Ichth.) Parrotfish; gen. of fish, so called from colouring and parrot-bill shape of teeth. S. cretensis (Mediterranean), highly esteemed by ancients. Fam. Labridae, ord. Acanthopterygii, sub-class Teleostei.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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