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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.