yellowtail
Appearance
See also: Yellowtail
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail
Adjective
[edit]yellowtail (not comparable)
- (in the names of certain organisms) Having a yellow tail.
Noun
[edit]yellowtail (plural yellowtails or yellowtail)
- Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
- yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
- Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .
- Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
- yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
- yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
- whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
- yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
- A European moth (Euproctis similis)
- A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
- A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
- A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- yellowtail cribo (Drymarchon corais corais)
- yellowtail amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
- yellowtail barracuda (Sphyraena flavicauda)
- yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea, syn. Pleuronectes ferruginea)
- yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae)
- yellowtail reef fish
- yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus)
References
[edit]- “yellowtail”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “yellowtail”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Yellowtail (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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