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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

A large voracious fish (

Pomatomus saitatrix

), of the family

Carangidæ

, 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

Labridæ

☞ The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.

bluefish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural bluefishes or bluefish)

A voracious fish, of the genus Pomatomus, found in waters of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
(Bermuda) The puddingwife wrasse.

voracious fish