YELLOWTAIL

Yellowtail

A yellowtail may be any of several different species of fish. Most commonly the Yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi is meant. In the context of sushi, yellowtail usually refers to the Japanese amberjack, Seriola quinqueradiata. Other species called simply "yellowtail" include:

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yellowtail

Noun

  1. yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi.
  2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack, .
  3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
    1. Atlantic bumper, .
    2. yellowtail flounder, .
    3. yellowtail snapper, .
    4. whitespotted devil,
    5. yellowtail horse mackerel, .
  4. A European moth
  5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo, a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
  6. The yellow-tailed oriole, a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
  7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey, a New World primate endemic to Peru.

Adjective

  1. Having a yellow tail.


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