yellowtail

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several large marine game fishes of the genus Seriola, having a yellow or yellowish tail, such as S. dorsalis, of coastal waters of southern California and Mexico.
2. n. Any of several other fishes having a yellowish tail, as the silver perch.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fish, Ocyurus chrysurus, belonging to the family Lutianidæ, and found from Florida to Brazil.
2. n. In Victoria and New South Wales, Trachurus declivis, a species slightly different from the horse-mackerel of Europe.
3. n. An earthworm yellow about the tail.
4. n. One of various fishes. A carangoid fish of the genus Seriola, as S. dorsalis. See cut under amber-fish.
5. Yellow-tailed.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi.
2. n. Any of various fish, see Wikipedia

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (Seriola dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.
2. n. The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
3. n. The menhaden.
4. n. The runner, 12.
5. n. A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
6. n. The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

WordNet 3.0

1. n. game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
2. n. superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail