yellowtail

English

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of yellow +‎ tail

Adjective

yellowtail (not comparable)

1. Having a yellow tail.

Noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails)

1. Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack ().
3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
   1. Atlantic bumper ().
   2. yellowtail flounder ().
   3. yellowtail snapper ().
   4. whitespotted devil ().
   5. yellowtail horse mackerel ().
4. A European moth ()
5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
6. The yellow-tailed oriole (), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (), a New World primate endemic to Peru.

Synonyms

• (): buri, hamachi, Japanese amberjack

Derived terms

• yellowtail cribo ()
• yellowtail amberjack ()
• yellowtail barracuda ()
• yellowtail flounder (, syn. )
• yellowtail horse mackerel ()
• yellowtail snapper ()

References

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