Crossword clues for yellowtail
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 food fish ( Sci[ae]na chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.
Sailor \Sail"or\, n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer. Sailor's choice. (Zo["o]l.)
An excellent marine food fish ( Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; -- called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream.
A species of grunt ( Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish.
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
A detective. [Slang, Eng.]
--Dickens.A messenger.
--Swift.A smuggler. [Colloq.]
--R. North.One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
(Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
--Totten.One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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(Founding)
A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(Zo["o]l.) A food fish ( Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
(Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.
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(Mech.)
A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having a yellow tail. n. 1 yellowtail amberjack, ''Seriola lalandi''. 2 A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack, (taxlink Seriola quinqueradiata species noshow=1). 3 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 4 # (vern: Atlantic bumper), (taxlink Chloroscombrus chrysurus species noshow=1). 5 # (vern: yellowtail flounder), (taxlink Limanda ferruginea species noshow=1). 6 # (vern: yellowtail snapper), (taxlink Ocyurus chrysurus species noshow=1). 7 # (vern: whitespotted devil), (taxlink Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus species noshow=1) 8 # (vern: yellowtail horse mackerel), (taxlink Trachurus novaezelandiae species noshow=1). 9 A European moth 10 The yellow-tailed black cockatoo, a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia. 11 The (vern: yellow-tailed oriole), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. 12 The (vern: yellow-tailed woolly monkey), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
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]
Wikipedia
A yellowtail may be any of several different species of fish. Most commonly the Yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi is meant. In the context of sushi, yellowtail usually refers to the Japanese amberjack, Seriola quinqueradiata. Other species called simply "yellowtail" include:
- Atlantic bumper, Chloroscombrus chrysurus
- Yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea
- Yellowtail Cod, Limanda Operaphan
- Yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus
- Whitespotted devil, Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus
- Yellowtail horse mackerel, Trachurus novaezelandiae
In addition, "yellowtail" appears in many other common names of fish:
- Butter yellowtail Seriolina nigrofasciata
- California yellowtail Seriola lalandi
- Cape yellowtail Seriola lalandi
- Common yellowtail croaker Umbrina xanti
- Dusky yellowtail Seriolina nigrofasciata
- Giant yellowtail Seriola lalandi
- Great yellowtail Seriola dumerili
- Greater yellowtail Seriola dumerili
- Indian yellowtail angelfish Apolemichthys xanthurus
- Longfin yellowtail Seriola rivoliana
- Pacific yellowtail emperor Lethrinus atkinsoni
- Queensland yellowtail angelfish Chaetodontoplus meredithi
- Redbelly yellowtail fusilier Caesio cuning
- Slender yellowtail kingfish Alepes djedaba
- Southeast Asian yellowtail rasbora Rasbora tornieri
- Southern yellowtail Seriola lalandi
- Yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi
- Yellowtail angelfish Apolemichthys xanthurus
- Yellowtail angelfish Centropyge fisheri
- Yellowtail angelfish Chaetodontoplus personifer
- Yellowtail ballyhoo Hemiramphus brasiliensis
- Yellowtail barracuda Sphyraena flavicauda
- Yellowtail bass Bathyanthias mexicana
- Yellowtail blue snapper Paracaesio xanthura
- Yellowtail butterflyfish Chaetodon xanthurus
- Yellowtail catfish Pangasius pangasius
- Yellowtail chromis Chromis enchrysura
- Yellowtail clownfish Amphiprion clarkii
- Yellowtail clownfish Amphiprion sebae
- Yellowtail coris Coris gaimard
- Yellowtail croaker Austronibea oedogenys
- Yellowtail damsel Microspathodon chrysurus
- Yellowtail damsel Pomacentrus trichourus
- Yellowtail damselfish Microspathodon chrysurus
- Yellowtail dascyllus Dascyllus flavicaudus
- Yellowtail demoiselle Neoglyphidodon polyacanthus
- Yellowtail dottyback Pseudochromis linda
- Yellowtail emperor Lethrinus crocineus
- Yellowtail fangblenny mimic Plagiotremus laudandus
- Yellowtail flounder Limanda ferruginea
- Yellowtail fusilier Caesio cuning
- Yellowtail fusilier Caesio teres
- Yellowtail fusilier Paracaesio xanthura
- Yellowtail goldie Pseudanthias evansi
- Yellowtail hamlet Hypoplectrus chlorurus
- Yellowtail kingfish Caranx heberi
- Yellowtail mullet Liza vaigiensis
- Yellowtail mullet Sicamugil cascasia
- Yellowtail parrot Sparisoma rubripinne
- Yellowtail parrotfish Sparisoma rubripinne
- Yellowtail poison-fang blenny Meiacanthus atrodorsalis
- Yellowtail rasbora Rasbora dusonensis
- Yellowtail rasbora Rasbora tornieri
- Yellowtail reefcod Epinephelus flavocaeruleus
- Yellowtail reeffish Chromis enchrysura
- Yellowtail rockcod Epinephelus flavocaeruleus
- Yellowtail rockfish Sebastes flavidus
- Yellowtail sailfin tang Zebrasoma xanthurum
- Yellowtail sardinella Sardinella rouxi
- Yellowtail scad Atule mate
- Yellowtail scad Trachurus novaezelandiae
- Yellowtail sergeant Abudefduf notatus
- Yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus
- Yellowtail surgeonfish Prionurus punctatus
- Yellowtail surgeonfish Zebrasoma xanthurum
- Yellowtail tamarin Anampses meleagrides
- Yellowtail tang Zebrasoma xanthurum
- Yellowtail tetra Alestopetersius caudalis
- Yellowtail trumpeter Amniataba caudavittata
- Yellowtail tubelip Diproctacanthus xanthurus
- Yellowtail wrasse Anampses meleagrides
Category:Fish common names
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, a snake species
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.