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Large important food fish of Australia
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jewfish
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Jewfish is a term that has been used for a number of species of fish, including: Epinephelus itajara , the Goliath grouper Argyrosomus japonicus , was traditionally known as the mulloway jewfish in eastern Australia, but has been abbreviated to mullowat ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarpum \Tar"pum\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A very large marine fish ( Megapolis Atlanticus ) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and ...
Wiktionary
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n. Any of many types of fish including the Japanese seabass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Jew (n.) + fish (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre [syn: mulloway , Sciaena antarctica ] large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales [syn: Mycteroperca bonaci ] [also: jewfishes (pl)]
Usage examples of jewfish.
An old woman sat against the elephant-grey bole of a palm, watching an array of jewfish drying before her, too idle to brush the flies away from her eyelids.
After what Vandranasis had said, Yale was not surprised to find jewfish in the lagoon, although they generally stayed on the outer side of the atoll.
No anchor going to hold you there, you got to lean on the oars to hold station in the gap - the hole at Gunfire Break is deep, man, deep, but the jewfish in there are big, man, big.
Then up comes a great jewfish, which is just as likely to weigh five hundred pounds as fifty, and to be as large as a good-sized Shetland pony, and he makes a lunge for your bait, and-- Well, you can go right on imagining the rest, too.
But Bertram, with all the skill of a jewfish slipping out of a net, had managed to avoid attaching himself to any of the plots against Harrah or the riots of the Iviomils.
Coleman probably would have raised his feet up when he crossed the drawbridge at Jewfish Creek, putting him officially in the Florida Keys.
The Buick slowed as it struggled up the incline toward the bridge over Jewfish Creek, the official border between mainland Florida and the Keys.
Name another park where, on a spring morning, it's possible to encounter bald eagles, manatees, a jewfish the size of a wine cask, an indigo snake as rare as sapphire, and even a wild pink flamingo.
The makeshift mooring afforded a partially obstructed view of the busy docks at Jewfish Creek, where the rednecks finally had managed an uneventful landing.