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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yellowtail has 2 senses
- yellowtail(n = noun.animal) ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper - superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail; Array is a kind of snapper
- yellowtail(n = noun.animal) seriola dorsalis - game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin; Array is a kind of jack
is a member of genus ocyurus, ocyurus
is a member of genus seriola, seriola
CIDE DICTIONARY
yellowtail, n.
Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola ; especially, the large California species (Seriola dorsalis ) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina , and white salmon . [1913 Webster]
" Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail."
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