bluefish Definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1622 1. an active food and game marine fish (Pomatomus saltatrix) that is bluish above with silvery sides 2. any of various dark or bluish fishes (as the pollack)

English Explanatory Dictionary

n. US 1 any of several bluish-green grasses, esp. of Kentucky. 2 a kind ofinstrumental country-and-western music characterized by virtuosic playingof banjos, guitars, etc.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a voracious marine fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, inhabiting tropical waters and popular as a game-fish.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 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.

Webster's 1913 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.