noun
food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
• Syn: ↑rudderfish, ↑Kyphosus sectatrix
• Hypernyms: ↑sea chub
• Member Holonyms: ↑Kyphosus, ↑genus Kyphosus
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nounUsage: usually capitalized B
: a gray percoid fish (Kyphosus sectatrix) striped with blue or yellow that is a common food and game fish of the warmer waters of the western Atlantic especially about the Florida keys and Bermuda
Useful english dictionary. 2012.