Bluefish - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Bluefish :  (noun)
1: bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters [syn: Pomatomus saltatrix]
2: fatty bluish flesh of bluefish

Based on WordNet 2.0

Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large marine food fish ({Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish ({Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pudding fish \Pud"ding fish\, Pudding wife \Pudding wife\ [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish ({Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Bluefish : \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 1. A large voracious fish ({Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid[ae], valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

2. A West Indian fish ({Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labrid[ae].

Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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