Crossword clues for threadfin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threadfin \Thread"fin`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
Wiktionary
n. Any of many perciform fish of the family ''(taxlink Polynemidae family noshow=1)''
WordNet
n. mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
Wikipedia
Threadfins are silvery grey perciform marine fish of the family Polynemidae. Found in tropical to subtropical waters throughout the world, the threadfin family contains nine genera and 33 species. An unrelated species sometimes known by the name threadfin, Alectis indicus, is properly the Indian threadfish (family Carangidae).
Ranging in length from in the black-finned threadfin (Polydactylus nigripinnis) to in fourfinger threadfins ( Eleutheronema tetradactylum) and giant African threadfins (Polydactylus quadrifilis), threadfins are both important to commercial fisheries as a food fish, and popular among anglers. Their habit of forming large schools makes the threadfins a reliable and economic catch.
Usage examples of "threadfin".
Lead oarsmen who set the stroke, and they wear red bandanas and have red ribbons around their oar handles, and in Shanghai they also add a delicious threadfin called 'horse-friend-gentleman-fish,' which is —"