bluefish

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bluefish (countable and uncountable, plural bluefishes or bluefish)

1. A voracious fish (Pomatomus saltatrix) found in waters of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
2. (Bermuda) The puddingwife wrasse (Halichoeres radiatus).
3. A New Zealand bluefish (Girella cyanea).
4. (UK) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
5. (Canada) An Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus).
6. (Malaysia) Kyphosus vaigiensis.

Synonyms

• (Pomatomus saltatrix): tailor
• (Kyphosus vaigiensis): golden, brassy, lowfin, blue-bronze chub, yellow chub, lowfin drummer

Derived terms

• Bermuda bluefish (Halichoeres radiatus)
• Boston bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
• Japanese bluefish (Scombrops boops)
• New Zealand bluefish (Girella cyanea)
• salmon bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Translations

Pomatomus saltatrix

• Bulgarian: лефер (bg) m (lefer)
• Catalan: tallahams (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扁鰺 / 扁鲹 (biǎnshēn), 藍魚 / 蓝鱼 (lányú), 藍鯥 / 蓝𱇶, 蓝鯥 (lánlù)

• Finnish: sinikala
• French: tassergal (fr) m
• Georgian: ლუფარი (lupari)
• German: Blaufisch m
• Greek: γοφάρι (el) n (gofári)
• Hungarian: vérengző makrahal
• Irish: táilliúir m
• Italian: pesce serra m
• Lithuanian: melsvieji ešeriai
• Maori: korokoropounamu, karokaropounamu
• Ottoman Turkish: لوفر (lüfer)
• Polish: lufar m, skrzelołusk m, tasergal m
• Portuguese: anchova (pt) f, enchova (pt) f
• Romanian: lufar (ro) m
• Russian: луфа́рь (ru) m (lufárʹ)
• Spanish: anjova f, sastre (es) m
• Swedish: blåfisk c
• Turkish: lüfer (tr)

Halichoeres radiatus

Girella cyanea

Anoplopoma fimbria

Thymallus arcticus

• Finnish: pohjanharjus

Kyphosus vaigiensis

See also

• Boston blue (Pollachius virens, pollock)

References

• bluefish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bluefish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “bluefish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.