ˈblue-fish
[f. blue a. + fish.]
a. A fish, a species of Coryphæna, found about the Bahamas and on the coast of Cuba. b. (See quot.)
| 1734 Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 318. 1782 P. H. Bruce Mem. xii. 424 The sea hereabouts [Bahamas] abounds with fish unknown to us in Europe..parrot-fish, blue-fish, sucking-fish. 1848–60 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Blue-Fish (Temnodon saltator), a salt-water fish of the mackerel order, but larger in size. 1873 Echo 11 Mar. 2/2 Large quantities of halibut, bass, blue fish, flounders, and weak fish are also caught. 1880 Günther Fishes 447. |