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mo·jar·ra

(mō-här′ə)

n. pl. mojarra or mo·jar·ras

Any of various small, silvery, mainly tropical marine fishes of the family Gerreidae, having a very protrusible mouth.

[American Spanish, from Spanish, knife, a species of sea bream (Diplodus vulgaris), from Arabic muḥarrab, pointed, from ḥarraba, to sharpen, point, from ḥarba, lance, spear; see x̣rb in Semitic roots.]

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mojarra

(məʊˈhɑːrə)

(Animals) a tropical American sea fish that belongs to the genus Gerreidae

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mojarra - small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

family Gerreidae, family Gerridae, Gerreidae, Gerridae - mojarras

Gerres cinereus, yellowfin mojarra - popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil

Eucinostomus gula, silver jenny - silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic

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Yet it is unlikely that such propaganda will be found in any of the undeciphered scripts, since the surviving inscriptions are not monumental--with the exception of a few Meroitic ones and a single, challenging inscribed stone, the La Mojarra stela, written in the Isthmian script of the Mexican Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the second century AD.

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It was a broad mountain, named for a bell believed to be embedded "in an enchanted place" in the mountain's rocks, "put there by some god or force." The men reminisced about hearing the bell while night-fishing for mojarra and boneless quishele to sell in the market, a sonorous ringing as if it came from a bell on a church, although there were no churches around.

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Workers building a riverside dock near the southeastern Mexico settlement of La Mojarra in November 1986 literally stumbled upon a huge rock that they dragged from its muddy bed.