Definitions for kingfishˈkɪŋˌfɪʃ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

king•fishˈkɪŋˌfɪʃ(n.)(pl.)-fish; -fish•es.

  1. any of various large edible croakers, esp. of the genus Menticirrhus, of North American coastal waters.

    Category: Ichthyology

  2. Category: Ichthyology

    Ref: king mackerel.

  3. Informal. a person regarded as an authority.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

Origin of kingfish:

1740–50

Princeton's WordNet

  1. kingfish(noun)

    the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

  2. cero, pintado, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis(noun)

    large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

  3. white croaker, chenfish, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus(noun)

    small silvery marine food fish found off California

  4. kingfish(noun)

    any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast

  5. kingfish, Seriola grandis(noun)

    large game fish of Australia and New Zealand

Wiktionary

  1. kingfish(Noun)

    any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic

  2. kingfish(Noun)

    any of several similar fishes of the Pacific

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kingfish(noun)

    an American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb

  2. Kingfish(noun)

    the opah

  3. Kingfish(noun)

    the common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero

  4. Kingfish(noun)

    the queenfish


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