noun
important marine food fishes
• Syn: ↑tilefish
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Member Holonyms: ↑Branchiostegidae, ↑family Branchiostegidae
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\\bläŋ.ˈkē(ˌ)(y)ō\ noun (-s)Etymology: Spanish, from blanco white (from Old Spanish, from Old French blanc) + -illo, diminutive suffix — more at blank
: a marine fish of the percoid family Branchiostegidae including several important food fishes (as the ocean whitefish and the tilefish)
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/blahng keel"yoh/; Sp. /blahng kee"lyaw, -kee"yaw/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) blanquillo, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) blanquillos /-keel"yohz/; Sp. /-kee"lyaws, -kee"yaws/.
any of several game fishes of the genus Caulolatilus, related to the tilefishes.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.