Found 2 items, similar to Kingfish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: kingfish
kingfish
n 1: the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the
Atlantic coast of the United States
2: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn:
cero,
pintado,
Scomberomorus regalis
]
3: small silvery marine food fish found off California [syn:
white croaker
,
chenfish,
Genyonemus lineatus]
4: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family
indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American
coast
5: large game fish of Australia and New Zealand [syn:
Seriola grandis
]
[also:
kingfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Kingfish
Kingfish
\King"fish`\ (k[i^]ng"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) 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.
(b) The opah.
(c) The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See
Cero.
(d) The queenfish.
[1913 Webster]