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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 por·gy /ˈpɔrgi/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Por·gy n.; pl. Porgies
 1. Zool. (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]
 2. Zool. Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 porgy
      n 1: lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic
           coast of the United States [syn: scup]
      2: important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and
         tropical coastal waters; found worldwide