Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, oval-shaped fish (Lampris guttatus) having a silvery iridescent body with red fins and edible red flesh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large and beautiful deep-sea fish of the family Lamprididæ, Lampris guttatus, conspicuous for its rich color, which is a brocade of silver and lilac, rosy on the belly and decorated with silvery spots. The flesh is red, and much esteemed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large oceanic fish (
Lampris guttatus ), inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. It is remarkable for its brilliant colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called alsoking of the herrings .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various large,
colourful , deep-bodiedpelagic fish of theLampridae family .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The next night we made fish tacos with the leftovers and today I am eating the remaining opah for lunch....which reminds me, it's time to eat!
Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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The fish only took about 6 minutes to grill and we had a lovely dinner of opah, corn succotash and a fresh green salad.
Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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The fish only took about 6 minutes to grill and we had a lovely dinner of opah, corn succotash and a fresh green salad.
Archive 2006-06-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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I had the grilled opah, which was well prepared and tasty but nothing to blog about.
Trying Absinthe --The Restaurant FJK 2006
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I tossed together a simple marinade of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onions, sesame oil, sake, mirin and sugar and let the opah soak up those flavors for an hour.
Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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The next night we made fish tacos with the leftovers and today I am eating the remaining opah for lunch....which reminds me, it's time to eat!
Archive 2006-06-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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I tossed together a simple marinade of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onions, sesame oil, sake, mirin and sugar and let the opah soak up those flavors for an hour.
Archive 2006-06-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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I had the grilled opah, which was well prepared and tasty but nothing to blog about.
Archive 2006-11-01 FJK 2006
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I loved the plush ocean trout, an exotic Thai-style opah and most especially a roasted monkfish, the flesh fall-apart succulent and served with fabulous gnocchi scented with cinnamon, allspice and clove.
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Try the seabass, the yellowtail or the opah and don't skip the $2.75 cup of clam chowder.
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bilby commented on the word opah
If I had one of these I'd call it Winfey.
March 4, 2024