SALTWATER FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saltwater fish mean? 

• SALTWATER FISH (noun)
  The noun SALTWATER FISH has 1 sense:

1. flesh of fish from the sea used as food

  Familiarity information: SALTWATER FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTWATER FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of fish from the sea used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("saltwater fish" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saltwater fish"):

lingcod (the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States)

red rockfish (red flesh of large food fish of Pacific coast)

snapper (flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas)

pilchard; sardine (small fatty fish usually canned)

weakfish (lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States)

sailfish (a saltwater fish with lean flesh)

rockfish (the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks)

flatfish (sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets)

scup (flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States)

porgy; scup (lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States)

pollack; pollock (lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish)

cod; codfish (lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached)

butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

swordfish (flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks)

bluefish (fatty bluish flesh of bluefish)

bream; sea bream (flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae)

kingfish (the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States)

herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)

blowfish; puffer; pufferfish; sea squab (delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver)

pompano (flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish)

mackerel (flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish)

tuna; tuna fish; tunny (important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks)

monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

dolphinfish; mahimahi (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii))

cusk (the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters)

whiting (flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe)

whiting (flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America)

croaker (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S.)

grouper (flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass)

bass; sea bass (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae)