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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large food and game fish (Rachycentron canadum) of tropical and subtropical seas, having a dark brown body and a projecting lower jaw.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Spanish name of the sergeant-fish, Elacate canada.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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