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Game fish of S California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
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yellowtail
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yellowtail , yellow-tail , or Yellow Tail may refer to: Yellowtail (fish) , any of several different species of fish Yellow-tail , a European moth species Yellow Tail (wine) , an Australian wine producer Yellow Tail Records , a record label Yellowtail cribo ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mademoiselle \Ma`de*moi`selle"\, n.; pl. Mesdemoiselles . [F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel .] A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. --Goldsmith. (Zo["o]l.) A marine ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of fish, 1709, from yellow (adj.) + tail (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail [syn: yellowtail snapper , Ocyurus chrysurus ] game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin [syn: Seriola dorsalis ...
Usage examples of yellowtail.
The yellowtail and bonito around Montague Island had a most unobliging habit of biting not more than about once a week.
Wally shows up with two yellowtail and the Tranny Man accepts their invitation for supper.
If he was not a regular old yellowtail, belonging to the family seriola, then I missed my classification.
Fish in gleaming plenty: tarpon, cavallies, mullets, snappers, yellowtails, old-maids, ten-pounders (thought rather coarse, said Square, though nourishing), and of course great heaps of oysters.
It was a pungent mass of vats and piles of shaved ice topped with sixty-pound yellowtails and huge albacores, barrels of writhing crabs the size of dinner plates, mounds of three-inch prawns, rock lobsters, abalone by the gross, oysters bigger than his fist, ling and flounder, cauldrons of shrimp… Knives flashed and paper-wrapped parcels were handed out to shoppers.
It would be only appropriate for the menu to stress bottom fish, but good taste might preclude the listing of yellowtail.
All sorts of live and recently live fish were moved across the sidewalk: snapper and halibut and mackerel, sea bass and ling cod and yellowtail, clawless Pacific lobster, Dungeness crab, ghastly monkfish, with their long saberlike teeth and a single spine that jutted from their head, bracing a luminous lure they used to draw in prey, so deep in the ocean that the sun never shone.
A few brought fish to the Big House, and they were objects of fascination to the Jimminies, mysterious silent beings who walked on the paths, carrying glistening trout and yellowtail on long fronds ripped from the fan-shaped palmettos.
By tossing out chum the owner brought shoals of blue tang as well as gray and yellowtail snapper around us.
He noticed the brilliant reflection of yellowtails and the darting movements of whitefingers in the clear waters.