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yellowtail
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yellowtail, n.
Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola ; especially, the large California species (Seriola dorsalis ) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina , and white salmon . [1913 Webster]
" Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail." [1913 Webster]
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