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Yellowtail vs Kingfish - What's the difference?

yellowtail | kingfish |

As nouns the difference between yellowtail and kingfish

is that yellowtail is yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi while kingfish is any of several food fishes of the genus genus: Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker.

As an adjective yellowtail

is having a yellow tail.

yellowtail

English

(wikipedia yellowtail)

Adjective

(-)
  • Having a yellow tail.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi .
  • A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack, .
  • Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
  • # (Atlantic bumper), .
  • # (yellowtail flounder), .
  • # (yellowtail snapper), .
  • # (whitespotted devil),
  • # (yellowtail horse mackerel), .
  • A European moth
  • The yellow-tailed black cockatoo, a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
  • The (yellow-tailed oriole), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
  • The (yellow-tailed woolly monkey), a New World primate endemic to Peru.

    • Synonyms

    * (buri) * hamachi * Japanese amberjack

    Derived terms

    * yellowtail amberjack * (yellowtail flounder) * (yellowtail horse mackerel) * (yellowtail snapper)

    kingfish

    English

    (wikipedia kingfish)

    Noun

  • Any of several food fishes of the genus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker
  • Other Atlantic fish
  • # opah (United Kingdom)
  • # white croaker (United Kingdom)
  • # wahoo (Barbados)
  • # (king mackerel)
  • Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
  • # (narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) (Australia)
  • # (Japanese meagre) (Australia)
  • # yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand)
  • # (silver gemfish) (Australia)
  • Caranx
  • # (crevalle jack) (Mauritania)
  • # (giant trevally) (sometimes travelli ) (South Africa)
  • cobia, Rachycentron canadum , of warm waters globally.

    • See also

    *yellowtail