bluefish

1. 1.

   bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

   SynonymsPomatomus saltatrix

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofPomatomus
2. 2.

   fatty bluish flesh of bluefish

   Broadersaltwater fish

Other forms of bluefish

plural

bluefishes

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 bluefish

What does bluefish mean?

bluefish means "bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bluefish?

bluefish has 2 syllables: blue-fish. The stress falls on "blue".

What is another word for bluefish?

Close synonyms include Pomatomus saltatrix. 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 bluefish a common word?

bluefish 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.