Plectropomus
noun
Plec·trop·o·mus
plekˈträpəməs
: a genus comprising tropical Indo-Pacific percoid food fishes (as the coral cod of Australia) and others that are dangerously poisonous when eaten and being sometimes isolated in a separate family but usually included among the Serranidae
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek plēktron + New Latin -pomus (from Greek pōma lid, cover); akin to Greek pōy herd, flock
- marsh bent
- marsh bent grass
- marsh blackbird
- marsh bluebill
- marsh buggy
- marsh cinquefoil
- marsh clematis
- marsh clover
- marsh crab
- marsh cress
- marsh crocodile
- marsh crowfoot
- marsh cudweed
- marsh cypress
- marsh daisy
- marsh deer
- marsh elder
- marsh felwort
- marsh fern
- marsh fever
- marsh five-finger
- marsh fleabane
- marsh fleawort
- marsh foxtail
- marsh frog