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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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The opah.
- 3noun
The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.
- 4noun
The queenfish.
- 5noun
large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
- 6noun
any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- 7noun
small silvery marine food fish found off California
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- 8noun
large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
- 9noun
the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
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