English > saltwater fish: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
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| Narrower | blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver |
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| bluefish | fatty bluish flesh of bluefish |
| bream, sea bream | flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae |
| butterfish | Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
| cod, codfish | Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish |
| croaker | The lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. |
| cusk | The lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters |
| dolphinfish, mahimahi | The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) |
| flatfish | Sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish |
| grouper | flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass |
| herring | Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific |
| kingfish | The lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States |
| lingcod | The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States |
| mackerel | flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish |
| monkfish | flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America |
| pollack, pollock | Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish |
| pompano | flesh of pompano |
| porgy, scup | Lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States |
| red rockfish | Red flesh of large food fish of Pacific coast |
| rockfish | The lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks |
| sailfish | A saltwater fish with lean flesh |
| sardine, pilchard | small fatty fish usually canned |
| scup | flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States |
| sea bass, bass | The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae |
| snapper | flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas |
| swordfish | flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks |
| tuna, tuna fish, tunny | Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae |
| weakfish | Lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
| whiting | flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America |
| whiting | flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe |
| Broader | seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
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