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blackfish

[ blak-fish ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) black·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) black·fish·es.
  1. any of various dark-colored fishes, as the tautog, Tautoga onitis, or the black sea bass, Centropristes striata.
  2. a small, freshwater food fish, Dallia pectoralis, found in Alaska and Siberia, noted for its ability to survive frozen in ice.


blackfish

/ ˈblækˌfɪʃ /

noun

  1. a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis , related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  2. a female salmon that has recently spawned Compare redfish
  3. any of various other dark fishes, esp the luderick, a common edible Australian estuary fish
  4. another name for pilot whale
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blackfish1

An Americanism first recorded in 1680–90; black + fish
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Example Sentences

In April 2014, SeaWorld put up a Facebook post, “69 Reasons You Shouldn’t Believe Blackfish,” that linked to a 32-page analysis of the film’s supposed inaccuracies.

To this day, multiple SeaWorld employees who have seen the film suggest to me that Blackfish barely scratches the surface.

Mike Barnett of Freeport, Long Island is busy catching striped bass and blackfish.

Other fishes are bottom feeders, as the blackfish and the sea bass, living almost entirely upon mollusks and crustaceans.

Wakening before the others, Raven went to the creek and made three pairs of fishes: sticklebacks, graylings, and blackfish.

Boatmen and deep-sea men report these blackfish to be dangerous and had better be left alone.

It was decided to try for blackfish off the rocks beyond Sokennet the next morning.

The fishermen were beginning to haul in weakfish and an occasional tautog, or blackfish.

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