Any of various mostly deep-bodied edible marine fishes, spec. (a) a wrasse; (b) the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus; (c) the menhaden, Brevoortia ty…

a fish of the family Balistidæ; so called because the large first ray of the dorsal fin is depressed by depression of the second, like the hammer of…

a deep-bodied, blue and yellow triggerfish, Balistes vetula, found mainly in the tropical West Atlantic and Caribbean; also called old wife.