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Sciaenoid
- - Of or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous marine fishes which includes the meagre (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), and fish of the drum and croaker families. The croaker is so called because it may make a croaking noise by use of its bladder; the Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus, formerly Micropogon undulatus) and the squeteague are a members of the croaker family, and the kingfish is a drum.
Scopeloid
- - Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. (Zool.) Any fish of the family Scopelidae.
Scorecard
- noun - (golf) a record of scores (as in golf); "you have to turn in your card to get a handicap"
Screeched
- verb - make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
Segmented
- verb - divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
- divide or split up; "The cells segmented"
- having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters
Sentenced
- verb - pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
Sequenced
- verb - arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"
Shorebird
- noun - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
Shoreward
- adjective - (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds"