Found 2 items, similar to Tautoga onitis.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Tautoga onitis
Tautoga onitis
n : large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North
America [syn:
tautog,
blackfish]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tautoga onitis
Tautog
\Tau*tog"\, n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian
name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written
by him tauta['u]og.] (Zo["o]l.)
An edible labroid fish (
Haitula onitis, or
Tautoga onitis
) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When
adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred,
with greenish gray. Called also
blackfish,
oyster fish,
salt-water chub, and
moll. [Written also
tautaug.]
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