Kingfish

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of several food and game fishes of the family Sciaenidae, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found in western Atlantic waters.
  • noun. Any of various carangid fishes.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person in a position of uncontested authority or influence, especially a powerful political leader.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of various fishes, of large size or of excellent quality, belonging to different families
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
  • noun. The opah.
  • noun. The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See cero.
  • noun. The queenfish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic.
  • noun. Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
  • noun. any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
  • noun. large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
  • noun. large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
  • noun. small silvery marine food fish found off California
  • Word Usage
    "People should avoid eating white croaker, also known as kingfish or tomcod, which has the highest contamination levels, the EPA warns."
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