yellowfishn.
/ˈjɛlə(ʊ)fɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊˌfɪʃ/ 1. Any of various fishes with yellow coloration.
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1734 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. vi. Pl. 10 The Yellow Fish. Some of these Fish were a foot in length: this had small thin scales of a reddish yellow colour.
1735 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Turdus cauda convexa. The Yellow-Fish.
1881 Field & Stream 28 Apr. 251/3 Cod will bite at the yellow fish in preference to anything else.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 272 The ‘Yellow-fish’, ‘Striped Fish’, or ‘Atka Mackerel’, Pleurogrammus monopterygius.
1930 D. S. Jordan et al. Check List Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (new ed.) 309 Cephalopholis fulvus (Linnæus) Guativere; Niggerfish; Yellowfish; Butterfish, Lemon-yellow butterfish; Guativere amarilla. West Indies; Bermuda and Florida Keys to Bahia.
1983 Times 1 Oct. (Saturday section) 3/8 The yellowfish..seemed to be a rather large oily fish, possibly of the mackerel genus, with a strong flavour.
2008 A. Brown Understanding Food (ed. 3) viii. 172/2 Six species of tuna are canned and sold in the United States: yellowfish, skipjack, bluefin, Oriental tuna, little tuna, and albacore.
2. South African. Any of various barbs and barbels (genera Barbus and Labeobarbus, family Cyprinidae) having mainly yellow coloration. Occasionally with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > member of genus Barbus
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1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 280 In the deepest of its pools I found a beautiful kind of carp, entirely of a yellow-green with a brazen lustre. The largest..was at least two feet long... It was known by the name of Geel-visch (Yellow-fish).]
1834 A. Smith Diary 9 Dec. (1939) I. 168 Fish in the pools of this river of two kinds, the flat head and the bearded yellow fish.
1870 S. Afr. Diamond Fields 37 I was fortunate enough to catch two fine yellow fish, and they were really first-rate; I have promised my companions some more.
1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. i. 18 The pouch contained..a ‘yellow fish’, a barbel-like fish of a pound and a half.
1924 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 75/2 The yellow-fish..will eagerly take a dry fly.
1959 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 14 107/2 Crude, small pictures of humans, rhinos and the tail of a fish, probably yellowfish (Barbus holubi).
1975 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. XI. 563/1 The yellow-fishes..are popular angling fishes, ranging from one kg to over 14 kg in weight.
2002 Getaway Dec. 137/2 We have rainbow and brown trout, indigenous small-mouth and large-mouth yellowfish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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