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ˈblue-fish
[f. blue a. + fish.]
a. A fish, a species of Coryphæna, found about the Bahamas and on the coast of Cuba.
b. (See quot.)
1734Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 318. 1782 P. H. Bruce Mem. xii. 424 The sea hereabouts [Bahamas] abounds with fish unknown to us in Europe..parrot-fish, blue-fish, sucking-fish. 1848–60Bartlett Dict. Amer., Blue-Fish (Temnodon saltator), a salt-water fish of the mackerel order, but larger in size. 1873Echo 11 Mar. 2/2 Large quantities of halibut, bass, blue fish, flounders, and weak fish are also caught. 1880Günther Fishes 447. |