sea chub

/si tʃəb/

Definitions of sea chub

1. noun

   schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
   types:

   Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix, rudderfish

   food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes