blackfish

1. 1.

   large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

   SynonymstautogTautoga onitis

   Broaderwrasse

   Part ofTautoga
2. 2.

   female salmon that has recently spawned

   Broadersalmon
3. 3.

   small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school

   Synonymspilot whaleblack whalecommon blackfishGlobicephala melaena

   Broaderdolphin

   Part ofGlobicephala

Other forms of blackfish

plural

blackfishes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackfish

What does blackfish mean?

blackfish means "large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackfish?

blackfish has 2 syllables: black-fish. The stress falls on "black".

What is another word for blackfish?

Close synonyms include tautog, Tautoga onitis, pilot whale, black whale, common blackfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blackfish a common word?

blackfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.