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Webster 1913 Edition


Yellowtail

Yel′low-tailˊ

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus
Seriola
; especially, the large California species (
Seriola dorsalis
) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; – called also
cavasina
, and
white salmon
.
(b)
The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
(c)
The menhaden.
(d)
The runner, 12.
(e)
A California rockfish (
Sebastodes flavidus
).
(f)
The sailor’s choice (
Diplodus rhomboides
).
☞ Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail.

Definition 2024


yellowtail

yellowtail

English

Adjective

yellowtail (not comparable)

  1. Having a yellow tail.

Noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails)

  1. yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi.
  2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack, Seriola quinqueradiata.
  3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
    1. Atlantic bumper, Chloroscombrus chrysurus.
    2. yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea.
    3. yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus.
    4. whitespotted devil, Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus
    5. yellowtail horse mackerel, Trachurus novaezelandiae.
  4. A European moth
  5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo, a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
  6. The yellow-tailed oriole, a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
  7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey, a New World primate endemic to Peru.

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