Yellowtail
adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
- 2 game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin wordnet
- 3 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .
- 4 superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail wordnet
- 5 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
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- 6 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
- 7 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
- 8 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
- 9 Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:; yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
- 10 A European moth (Euproctis similis)
- 11 A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
- 12 A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
- 13 A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
Adjective
- 1 Having a yellow tail. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Crow.
Example
More examples"Last April, staff from the Oregon Coast Aquarium rescued more than a dozen yellowtail jacks and one striped beakfish from a half-sunk, fiberglass wreck coated in seaweed. It was the front half of a roughly 15-meter-long commercial fishing vessel."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail
Etymology 2
Calque from Crow.
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