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kingfish

kingfish noun: any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.

kingfish: any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers
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Noun

kingfish (plural kingfishes or kingfish)

  1. Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
  2. opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
  3. white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
  4. wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
  5. king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
  6. narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
  7. Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
  8. yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
  9. silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
  10. crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
  11. giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
  12. Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.

kingfish meaning in Tamil

kingfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
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Dhivehi
މުޑަ ހަނދި muḍa haⁿdi

Forms of kingfish

pluralkingfishes
pluralkingfish

Origin of kingfish

From king + fish.

Phrases with kingfish

Questions about kingfish

What does kingfish mean?
Kingfish means any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
What is kingfish in Tamil?
Kingfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Kingfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kingfish?
Kingfish is a noun.
What is the plural of kingfish?
The plural of kingfish is kingfishes.

Words near kingfish in the dictionary

  1. Kingennie
  2. Kingery
  3. Kingerys
  4. kinges
  5. Kingfield
  6. kingfish
  7. kingfisher
  8. Kingfisher County
  9. kingfisher daisies
  10. kingfisher daisy
  11. Kingfisher Shores

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kingfish (page history and authors); kingfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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