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yellowfins

yellowfins is the plural of yellowfin.

Meaning of yellowfin

Noun

yellowfin (plural yellowfin or yellowfins)

  1. Any of various fish with yellow fins.
    • “It’s estimated that 10,000 yellowfin gobies died … as well as hundreds of striped bass and hundreds of sturgeon,” and the bloom probably is impacting all aquatic species in the area “to some degree,” Traverso said.2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN
    1. especially, yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares, in family Scombridae)
    2. yellowfin bream, any of several species in family Sparidae
    3. yellowfin croaker (Umbrina roncador, in family Sciaenidae)
    4. yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)
    5. yellowfin fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis, in family Labridae)

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Questions about yellowfins

What is yellowfins the plural of?
Yellowfins is the plural of yellowfin.

Words near yellowfins in the dictionary

  1. yellowfin
  2. yellowfin sole
  3. yellowfin soles
  4. yellowfin tuna
  5. yellowfin tunas
  6. yellowfins
  7. yellowfish
  8. yellowfishes
  9. Yellowhair
  10. Yellowhairs
  11. yellowhammer

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