Definitions

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

  • noun A marine food and game fish (Cynoscion regalis) of North American Atlantic waters, having small dark spots on the back.
  • noun Any of various other marine fishes of the family Sciaenidae and chiefly of the genus Cynoscion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sciænoid fish of the genus Cynoscion (formerly Otolithus), as the squeteague: so called because it has a tender mouth, and cannot pull hard when hooked.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See squeteague.
  • noun (Zoöl.) the spotted squeteague.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several species of game fish, of the genus Cynoscion, found in North American waters

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

  • noun lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  • noun food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out

Etymologies

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

[Obsolete Dutch weekvis : week, soft (from Middle Dutch weec; see weik- in Indo-European roots) + Dutch vis, fish (from Middle Dutch).]

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weak +‎ fish

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