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Kingfish

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
  2. 2
    large game fish of Australia and New Zealand wordnet
  3. 3
    Other Atlantic fish; opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
  4. 4
    any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast wordnet
  5. 5
    Other Atlantic fish; white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
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  1. 6
    small silvery marine food fish found off California wordnet
  2. 7
    Other Atlantic fish; wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
  3. 8
    large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters wordnet
  4. 9
    Other Atlantic fish; king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
  5. 10
    the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States wordnet
  6. 11
    Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.; narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
  7. 12
    Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.; Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
  8. 13
    Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.; yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
  9. 14
    Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.; silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
  10. 15
    Fish of genus Caranx; crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
  11. 16
    Fish of genus Caranx; giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
  12. 17
    Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.

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From king + fish.

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