ocyurus chrysurus

1. 1.

   superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

   Synonymsyellowtailyellowtail snapper

   Broadersnapper

   Part ofOcyurus

Questions about ocyurus chrysurus

What does ocyurus chrysurus mean?

ocyurus chrysurus means "superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail".

What is another word for ocyurus chrysurus?

Close synonyms include yellowtail, yellowtail snapper. 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 ocyurus chrysurus a common word?

ocyurus chrysurus 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.