kingfish
noun
- game fishes of the family Sciaenidae
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *kunją Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *kuningaz Proto-West Germanic *kuning Old English cyning Middle English king English king Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish English kingfish From king + fish.
- Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
- Other Atlantic fish
- Other Atlantic fish
- Other Atlantic fish
- Other Atlantic fish
- Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
- Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
- Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
- Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
- Fish of genus Caranx
- Fish of genus Caranx
- Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.