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jewfish
[ joo-fish ]
noun
- any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
jewfish
/ ˈ»åÏô³ÜËËŒ´Úɪʃ /
noun
- any of various large dark serranid fishes, such as Mycteroperca bonaci , of warm or tropical seas
- any of various marine sciaenid food and game fish, esp the mulloway
- a large food fish of W Australian waters Glaucosama hebraicum
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jewfish1
Example Sentences
About 20 years ago, a committee of fish experts renamed the jewfish into the goliath grouper.
While there was some regulation, over-fishing was causing significant declines of saucer scallop, east coast Australian snapper, pearl perch, black jewfish and some shark species.
Caracol Bay had relatively intact offshore mangroves, fringing coral reefs and critically endangered species like the Atlantic leatherback sea turtle and the black jewfish.
Jimmy imagines striding into camp, a jewfish slung over one shoulder, a clutch of softly ticking crays hung from their whiskers in his other fist.
The jewfish is common in more southern waters but there may well have been some strays in the Chesapeake.
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