Tautog

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dark-colored, edible marine fish (Tautoga onitis) found along the North American Atlantic coast. Also called blackfish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A labroid fish, Tautoga americana or T. onitis, abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and highly esteemed for food. Also called blackfish and oyster-fish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wrasse   
    Variant
    blackfish    oyster fish    salt-water chub    moll    tautaug   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    oyster-fish    black porgy    blackfish   
     
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