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Bluefish n. (Zool.)

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae. Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bluefish" Quotes from Famous Books

... into North Sea Harbour and dropped anchors. While the Follow Me doctored her engine the Adventurer sat down to a delayed dinner. Ossie gloomily predicted that everything would be spoiled, but if it was, no one save Ossie apparently knew it. There was broiled bluefish and boiled potatoes and spinach and sliced cucumbers that day, followed by a marvellous concoction which the steward called a prune pudding. Perry said he didn't care what it was called so long as it came, and, please he'd like some more! No cook can withstand such a compliment as that, ...

— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour

... exhibit they went to the Fisheries Building, which they found very beautiful. In its east pavilion was a double row of grottoed and illuminated aquaria containing the strangest inhabitants of the deep. Here they saw bluefish, sharks, catfish, bill-fish, goldfish, rays, trout, eels, sturgeon, anemones, the king-crab, burr-fish, flounders, toad-fish, and many other beautiful or remarkable inhabitants of the great deep; and the illuminated and decorated aquaria showed them ...

— Elsie at the World's Fair • Martha Finley

... all animals, likewise, is not the best sentiment to cultivate toward creation. Black snakes in a land of birds, sharks in the bluefish rips, rabbits in Australia, and weasels everywhere are out of place in the present economy of nature. Big owls and hawks, representing a yearly destruction of thousands of good game birds and of untold ...

— Wilderness Ways • William J Long

Words linked to "Bluefish" : percoid fish, percoid, Pomatomus saltatrix, genus Pomatomus, Pomatomus, saltwater fish, percoidean