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dolphinfish

DEFINITIONS OF: dolphinfish

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

Synonyms:
dolphin, mahimahi
Types:
Coryphaena hippurus
the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long
Coryphaena equisetis
a kind of dolphinfish
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

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

Synonyms:
mahimahi
Type of:
saltwater fish
flesh of fish from the sea used as food
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