Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chiroid fish of the coast of Alaska, Hexagrammus (Pleurogrammus) monopterygius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A rock trout (
Pleurogrammus monopterygius ) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called alsostriped fish , andAtka mackerel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Labeobarbus of mid-sized ray-finnedfish .
Etymologies
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yellow + fish
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Examples
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NASA made a gem of a find this week, a ring of brilliant blue-star clusters wrapped around the yellowfish nucleus of a former spiral galaxy.
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About 50 kilometers of Vaal River frontage contains rare barb, rock catfish and the large-mouth yellowfish, Potgieter says.
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The protected specie is the large-mouth yellowfish.
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