scarus

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scarus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Scarus \Sca"rus\, n. [L. See Scar a kind of fish.] (Zool.)
     A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent
     quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also
     parrot fish.
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