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war·mouth

 (wôr′mouth′)
n. pl. war·mouths (-mouthz′, -mouths′) or warmouth
A freshwater sunfish (Lepomis gulosus) of the eastern United States, having a brownish mottled body, a large mouth, and minute teeth on the tongue.

[Origin unknown.]
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warmouth

(ˈwɔːˌmaʊθ)
n
(Animals) a freshwater sunfish of the genus Chænobryttus
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Officially the centrarchid family of fishes, sunfish are relatively small carnivorous freshwater fishes such as bluegill, shell-cracker, warmouth, both black and white crappie, green sunfish, redear sunfish, and black bass.
Yellow bass, longear sunfish, green sunfish, warmouth, and yellow bullheads are present, but are seldom harvested by anglers due to the small size attained by most of these species.
Cody Johnson had 22 points for the Indians (9-5, 0-2) and Collin Warmouth scored 19.
In many southern states, fishing the bluegill and redear spawn is a highly popular tradition, with individual anglers harvesting 50 bluegill, redear sunfish, and/or warmouth per day in Florida and Georgia and unlimited numbers in Texas waters.
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The fish community was dominated by the following 11 species: Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), goldfish (Carassius auratus), common carp (Cyprinus carpio), black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus), warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), largemouth bass (Mieropterus salmoides), white crappie (Pomoxis annularis), and black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus).
Gut content analysis of the most common juvenile fish (Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Warmouth, Central Mudminnow, and Largemouth Bass) revealed that each species has distinct diet preferences.
Parasites of the warmouth bass, Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier and Valenciennes).
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Charlie, exposed to refinery at Warmouth, tells Kinch to wear his good clothes so that he could "try to look more like a gentleman" (295).