kingfish

kingfish is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
2. noun. The opah.
3. noun. The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.
4. noun. The queenfish.
5. noun. large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
6. noun. any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
7. noun. small silvery marine food fish found off California

   Synonyms: chenfish

8. noun. large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

   Synonyms: cero, pintado

9. noun. the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

Synonyms

chenfish, cero, pintado

Common word forms

kingfisher, kingfishes

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