Any of several perciform marine fishes constituting the family Pomatomidae; spec. Pomatomus saltatrix, widespread in most warmer seas, which is a…

(a) Any of various beaked fishes constituting the tropical family Scaridae, esp. of the genera Scarus and Sparisoma, which feed by scraping coral and…

As the name of an animal. Any of various large or strikingly coloured fishes; (in later use) esp. = emperor bream n. Frequently with distinguishing…

Applied to other species of fish. blue hound-fish, a former name in Massachusetts of Pomatomus saltatrix, now called the Bluefish.

U.S. Any of several marine fishes found in American waters: (a) the bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix (family Pomatomidae), found in most warm seas; (b)…

any of numerous marine fishes which frequent coral reefs; spec. any of several small damselfishes of the genus Chromis (family Pomacentridae)…

U.S. The bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix.

Any of several small fishes of the Indo-Pacific genus Kuhlia (family Kuhliidae), with silvery compressed bodies; cf. aholehole, n.

Any of various small marine fishes, esp. one of the percid family Grammatidae of the western Atlantic, several members of which are brightly…

a black and yellow shoaling fish found in the Caribbean, perhaps the sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis, or other damselfish; cf. schoolmaster, n.2…