English Explanatory Dictionary

yellowtail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a yellow tail.
noun
  1. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
  2. yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
  3. Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .
  4. Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
  5. yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
  6. yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
  7. whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
  8. yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
  9. A European moth (Euproctis similis)
  10. A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
  11. A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
  12. A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
name
  1. A surname from Crow.

Word forms

yellowtail yellowtails

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail

Synonyms

buri hamachi Japanese amberjack

Derived words

yellowtail amberjack yellowtail barracuda yellowtail cribo yellowtail flounder yellowtail horse mackerel yellowtail reef fish yellowtail scad yellowtail snapper
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