Kingfish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several food and game fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, indigenous to warm Atlantic waters.
  • n. Any of several similar or related fishes, indigenous to the Pacific Ocean.
  • n. Informal A person in a position of uncontested authority or influence, especially a powerful political leader.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic.
  • n. Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
  • n. The opah.
  • n. The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See cero.
  • n. The queenfish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of various fishes, of large size or of excellent quality, belonging to different families
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
  • n. any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
  • n. large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
  • n. large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
  • n. small silvery marine food fish found off California
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    kingfishes    whiting    surf whiting    barb    cero   
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