kingfish

Plural: kingfish, kingfishes

Noun

• A marine food fish, often large and predatory.
• the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
• large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
• small silvery marine food fish found off California
• any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
• large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
• Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
• Other Atlantic fish
• opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
• Other Atlantic fish
• white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
• Other Atlantic fish
• wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
• Other Atlantic fish
• king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
• Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
• narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
• Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
• Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
• Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
• yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
• Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
• silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
• Fish of genus Caranx
• crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
• Fish of genus Caranx
• giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
• Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.

Examples

• The KINGFISH of his Scrabble plays was always a seven-letter word on a triple.

Synonyms

cero, chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis, Seriola grandis, white croaker

Related Words

yellowtail