weakfish

1. 1.

   lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States

   Broadersaltwater fish

   Part ofspotted weakfish
2. 2.

   food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out

   SynonymsCynoscion regalis

   Broadersea trout

   Part ofCynoscion

Other forms of weakfish

plural

weakfishes

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 weakfish

What does weakfish mean?

weakfish means "lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weakfish?

weakfish has 3 syllables: we-ak-fish. The stress falls on "we".

What is another word for weakfish?

Close synonyms include Cynoscion regalis. 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 weakfish a common word?

weakfish 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.