Yellowtail: Definition and part of speech

Yellowtail

  1. n. The sailor’s choice (Diplodus rhomboides).
  2. n. Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; — called also cavasina, and white salmon.
  3. n. The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
  4. n. The menhaden.
  5. n. The runner, 12.
  6. n. A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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