BLUEFISH (bluefishes)

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Irregular inflected form: bluefishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bluefish mean? 

• BLUEFISH (noun)
  The noun BLUEFISH has 2 senses:

1. bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

2. fatty bluish flesh of bluefish

  Familiarity information: BLUEFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bluefish; Pomatomus saltatrix

Hypernyms ("bluefish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "bluefish"):

bluefish (fatty bluish flesh of bluefish)

Holonyms ("bluefish" is a member of...):

genus Pomatomus; Pomatomus (type genus of the Pomatomidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fatty bluish flesh of bluefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bluefish" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("bluefish" is a part of...):

bluefish; Pomatomus saltatrix (bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters)