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large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

1.

a. : a large edible marine percoid fish (Lobotes surinamensis) which occurs in the warm seas along the American Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to northern So. America and in which the long dorsal and anal fins extend backward and with the caudal fin appear like a three-lobed tail

b. : either of two fishes (L. pacificus and L. erate) of the Pacific and Indian oceans closely related to the Atlantic tripletail

2. : a spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)

/trip"euhl tayl'/, n.

1. a large food fish, Lobotes surinamensis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, having the lobes of its dorsal and anal fins extending backward and, with the caudal fin, suggesting a three-lobed tail.

2. any similar fishes of the genus Lobotes, of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

[1795-1805; TRIPLE + TAIL¹]