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Small silvery marine food fish found off California
Answer for the clue "Small silvery marine food fish found off California ", 8 letters:
kingfish
Alternative clues for the word kingfish
- Cero or croaker
- Mackerel caught on the Atlantic coast
- The lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
- Any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
Word definitions for kingfish in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.] (Zo["o]l.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus . Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several food fishes of the genus (taxlink Menticirrhus genus noshow=1) from the Atlantic; kingcroaker 2 Other Atlantic fish 3 # opah (taxlink Lampris guttatus species noshow=1) (United Kingdom) 4 # white croaker (taxlink Genyonemus lineatus ...
Usage examples of kingfish.
Scale and clean two large kingfish, and boil in salted and acidulated water, with a bunch of parsley, a slice each of carrot and onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.
With an AS-6 Kingfish missile hanging under each wing, the Backfires, too, were potentially vulnerable, but the Backfire had the ability to run at high Mach numbers and stood a fair chance at survival, even in the face of determined fighter opposition.
A minute later, the seventy Backfire bombers launched their hundred forty AS-6 Kingfish missiles and turned north at full military power.
When the Kingfish got to within twenty miles, every ship in the formation began to fire off chaff rockets, which filled the air with millions of aluminized Mylar fragments that fluttered on the air, creating dozens of new targets for the missiles to select from.
Some of the Kingfish lost lock with their targets and started chasing Mylar ghosts.
Turtle Bay On the gleaming white-sand lip of the next cove, Kingfish and the Cuban can see a couple walking on the beach.
The man called Kingfish puts out an expensive black cigar in the sand.
Then Kingfish and the Cuban come and stand over the bodies on the blood-spotted towels.
Then, for the second straight day, the police of San Dominica took descriptions of the Cuban and Kingfish Toone.
Out on a large flagstone terrace at the rear of the villa, Kingfish Toone could be heard speaking pidgin English with a French-Congolese accent.
Extensive checks were made on the dead men, Kingfish Toone and the Cuban, Blinkie Tomas.
It was more for something to do than because I wanted fish for my dinner that when I saw a squadron of small kingfish charging a big shoal of sardine ahead of us, I gave the wheel to Jimmy.
As we crossed the track of the shoal I hit a kingfish and brought him out kicking, flashing golden in the sun.
That evening I grilled the kingfish over the coals, roasted a couple of big sweet yams in their jackets and was washing it down with a cold beer sitting on the veranda of the shack and listening to the surf when I saw the headlights coming down through the palm trees.
Clean four kingfish, cut off the fins and gash from head to tail on each side.