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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Coryphaenidae — thedolphinfish .
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Examples
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Recent work on dolphin fish (Coryphaena) in the University of Hawaii's Sea Grant Program has shown them to be extremely fast growers and suitable for cage culture.
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They are gregarious in habit, carnivorous and extremely swift, but they must not be confounded with the dolphin of sailors, which is a true fish (_Coryphaena hipparis_) of great velocity and brilliant colours, which change like rainbow tints when the fish is dying.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Pomatomus saltator), and dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus
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