Definition of bluefish Bluefish

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Noun

Plural: bluefishes

bluefish - bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
  Pomatomus saltatrix
  percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
  genus pomatomus, pomatomus type genus of the Pomatomidae
bluefish - fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
  saltwater fish flesh of fish from the sea used as food
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  • bluefish (n.)
    A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, 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.
  • bluefish (n.)
    A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.

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