Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dark-colored, edible wrasse (Tautoga onitis) found along the North American Atlantic coast, having a blunt snout and a long dorsal fin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A labroid fish, Tautoga americana or T. onitis, abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and highly esteemed for food. Also called
blackfish and oyster-fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An edible labroid fish (
Haitula onitis , orTautoga onitis ) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called alsoblackfish ,oyster fish ,salt-water chub , andmoll .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fish of the
wrasse family found in salt water off of easternNorth America fromNova Scotia toSouth Carolina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thirty-three taxonomic groups of fish were collected in entrainment sampling, with five taxa cunner, bay anchovy, tautog, windowpane, and searobin comprising more than 90 percent of the sample.
Kyle Rabin: A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-Killing Cooling Systems Kyle Rabin 2011
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 30 weeks 3 days ago we have that problem with a certain ethnincity and tautog.
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Thirty-three taxonomic groups of fish were collected in entrainment sampling, with five taxa cunner, bay anchovy, tautog, windowpane, and searobin comprising more than 90 percent of the sample.
Kyle Rabin: A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-Killing Cooling Systems Kyle Rabin 2011
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 30 weeks 3 days ago we have that problem with a certain ethnincity and tautog.
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"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market.
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"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market.
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"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market.
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Soft-shelled clams, quahogs, American lobsters, striped bass, tautog, black-backed flounder and sea trout are abundant in the waters around Hope Island.
Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island 2007
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Soft-shelled clams, quahogs, American lobsters, striped bass, tautog, black-backed flounder, and sea trout are abundant in the waters around Hope Island.
Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island 2007
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Fortunately, one Bambi got whacked this past weekend, we can get plenty of shellfish, the question is if we can get any striped bass, late run blues or weakfish, tautog.
A vlog about almost asking John McCain a question about the "How do we beat the bitch?" question. Ann Althouse 2007
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