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Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
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tautog
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Wikipedia
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The tautog or blackfish , Tautoga onitis , is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to South Carolina . This species inhabits hard substrate habitats in inshore waters at depths from . It is currently the only known member ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
edible marine fish of the Atlantic coast of North America, 1640s, from Narragansett tautauog , plural of taut . Translated by Roger Williams as "sheep's head."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.] (Zo["o]l.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: blackfish , Tautoga onitis ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina ((taxlink Tautoga onitis species noshow=1)).
Usage examples of tautog.
Argonauts, they whispered, codlings, pollacks, hound-fish, tautog, tench, sea-elephant, they whispered, gillings, flounders, and beluga, the white whale and grampus, the sea-dog .
Real turtle, we understand, and salmon, tautog, canvasbacks, pig, English mutton, good roast beef, or dainties of that serious kind, fit for substantial country gentlemen, as these honorable persons mostly are.
Turtle, salmon, tautog, woodcock, boiled turkey, South-Down mutton, pig, roast beef, have vanished, or exist only in fragments, with lukewarm potatoes, and gravies crusted over with cold fat.