Originally: any of several small, brightly-coloured serranid fishes found in the Mediterranean and referred to by classical authors; esp. the…

(a) a fish of the genus Labrax, a bass; (b) a fish of the genus Serranus or family Serranidæ; (c) = red perch n. at red, adj. n.compounds 1e(c)(ii)…

Any of several large groupers of (or formerly placed in) the genus Epinephelus (family Serranidae); esp. the goliath grouper, E. itajara, which is…

(In full hind-fish.) One of various fishes of the family Serranidæ and genus Epinephalus.

Any of various large serranid fishes found in warm seas. Now esp.: a dusky grouper, Epinephelus guaza, of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic…

Any of various other marine fishes frequenting rocks or rocky bottoms; spec. (a) any of numerous fishes of the family Scorpaenidae, esp. of the…

= rock cod, n. 1 2.

Applied, with or without qualification, to other allied fishes, as the Red Cod (Lotella bacchus) of New Zealand; golden haddock, the John Dory; Jerusa…

Any of numerous fishes constituting the percoid family Serranidae, which comprises predatory marine fishes with spiny dorsal fins.