bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
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fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
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Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 1. A large voracious fish ({Pomatomus saitatrix}), of the family {Carangid[ae]}, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the {horse mackerel}, in Virginia {saltwater tailor}, or {skipjack}.
2. A West Indian fish ({Platyglossus radiatus}), of the family {Labrid[ae]}.
Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large marine food fish ({Serranus atrarius} syn. {Centropristis atrarius}) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, {blue bass}, {black sea bass}, {blackfish}, {bluefish}, and {black perch}. (b) A California food fish ({Cynoscion nobile}); -- called also {white sea bass}, and {sea salmon}.
Pudding fish \Pud"ding fish\, Pudding wife \Pudding wife\ [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish ({Iridio radiatus}, syn. {Platyglossus radiatus}) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also {pudiano}, {doncella}, and, at Bermuda, {bluefish}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"I've fished every single day and haven't got one." When told that an 18-pound bluefish was caught from the ABC-TV camera boat tht was following his speed boat one day, Bush was obviously envious.
The cyst that grew on the middle finger of President Bush's right hand may have started from some minor, forgotten injury that happened during a game of tennis or horseshoes, or while he stalked the wily trout or bluefish.