A voracious marine fish (Labrax lupus) of the Perch family, common in European seas; called also Sea-wolf and Sea-dace. Also an allied species…

Used as a name of various fish (chiefly Salmonidæ) resembling the trout in appearance or habits. Now local.

A marine sciænoid food-fish of the genus Cynoscion, esp. C. regalis, the squeteague or sea-trout of the Atlantic. Other varieties are the spotted…

A name for various fishes: (a) U.S. a marine food fish of the family Serranidæ; cf. jewfish, n.; (b) U.S. a sciænoid fish, Cynoscion nobilis of…

A name for several fishes belonging to the family Sciænidæ, especially American ones belonging to the genus Cynoscion.

Applied to fishes resembling a salmon, but not belonging to the Salmonidæ. (a) In U.S., the squeteague, n.; also the pike-perch (see pike, n.3). (b)…

A large and much esteemed food fish, Archosargus or Diplodus probatocephalus (Sargus ovis), abundant on the coasts of the United States. Also…

The weak-fish or sea-salmon, Cynoscion regalis (†Otolithus regalis, †Labrus squeteague), of the eastern United States. spotted squeteague (see quot…

†(a) a form of the European brown trout, Salmo trutta (formerly regarded as a distinct species, S. eriox) (obsolete); (b) (North American) the lake…

With defining prefix, as the name of various species of the genus Salmo (or of the allied genus Salvelinus), and occasionally of other genera.

Any of several sciaenid fishes (croakers) of the Pacific coast of North America, esp. the spotfin croaker, Roncador stearnsii, the black croaker…

the squeteague.

= squeteague, n.

With defining prefix, as the name of various species of the genus Salmo (or of the allied genus Salvelinus), and occasionally of other genera.

the squeteague.

Any of various fishes with fins that are partly or entirely yellow; esp. (in early use) the finnoc, Salmo trutta (now rare), and (in later use) the…