Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small copper coin equivalent to about 6 centimes, or a little over 1 cent, current in Morocco and on the Barbary coast. Also
blankillo . - noun A name of a fish of the genus Caulolatilus and family Latilidæ, such as C. chrysops, C. microps, or C. princeps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (
Caulolatilus chrysops ). It is red, marked with yellow.
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- noun
tilefish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun important marine food fishes
Etymologies
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Spanish blanquillo whitish.
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As far as I know, blanquillo is not in common use in the Spanish of the Mother Country, nor, I believe, is rooster in Britain, where a male chicken is still called a cock.
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