dolphinfish

1. 1.

   the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)

   Synonymsmahimahi

   Broadersaltwater fish

   Hawaii

2. 2.

   large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

   Synonymsdolphinmahimahi

   Broaderpercoid fish

   NarrowerCoryphaena hippurusCoryphaena equisetis

   Part ofCoryphaenidae

   Hawaii

Other forms of dolphinfish

plural

dolphinfishes·

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 dolphinfish

What does dolphinfish mean?

dolphinfish means "the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dolphinfish?

dolphinfish has 3 syllables: dol-phin-fish. The stress falls on "dol".

What is another word for dolphinfish?

Close synonyms include mahimahi, dolphin, mahimahi. 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 dolphinfish a common word?

dolphinfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.