- Small food fish - Small sea fish - Type of fish - of White - A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the
Codfish family; -- called also fittin. - A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the
preceding; -- called also silver hake. - Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common
from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf
whiting.
- Food fish - Food-fish - Photographer, informally - Tropical food fish - One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of
trifles; the snapper of a whip. - Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of
the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United
States and on both coasts of tropical America. - A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
- A member of the herring family found in the mediterranean sea - Herring-like fish - A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling
the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great
numbers on the coast of England.
- A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis),
allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for
bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. - What may be got without skill or merit. - A person easily duped or cheated. - The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or
axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing,
as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a
horizontal. - A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive
the pintle of the rudder. - To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose
upon.
- A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a
silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina
presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is
called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.
- Freshwater fish - Slender European fish - Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of
the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more
barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The
common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
- Edible flatfish - European fish - Flatfish - A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed
as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color
on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered
over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also
bannock fluke. - Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less
related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder
(see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta
guttulata) of California. - The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. - The trigger fish.
- A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis,
atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It
is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small
white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea
bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. - A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also
white sea bass, and sea salmon.