bluefish

English

Etymology

blue +‎ fish

Noun

bluefish (countable and uncountable, plural bluefishes or bluefish)

1. A voracious fish, , found in waters of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
2. (Bermuda) The puddingwife wrasse .
3. A New Zealand bluefish ().
4. (UK) A sablefish ().
5. (Canada) An Arctic grayling ().
6. (Malaysia) .

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Bermuda bluefish ()
• Boston bluefish ()
• Japanese bluefish ()
• New Zealand bluefish ()
• salmon bluefish ()

Translations

Pomatomus saltatrix

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

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

• Finnish: sinikala
• French: tassergal (fr) m
• Georgian: ლუფარი (lupari)
• German: Blaufisch m
• Greek: γοφάρι n (gofári)
• Irish: táilliúir m
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• Lithuanian: melsvieji ešeriai
• Maori: korokoropounamu, karokaropounamu
• 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)

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.