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What is a kingfish?

What is a kingfish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker
  2. Other Atlantic fish
    1. opah Lampris guttatus (United Kingdom)
    2. white croaker Genyonemus lineatus (United Kingdom)
    3. wahoo Acanthocybium solandri (Barbados)
    4. king mackerel Scomberomorus cavalla
  3. Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
    1. narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus commerson (Australia)
    2. Japanese meagre Argyrosomus japonicus (Australia)
    3. yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand)
    4. silver gemfish Rexea solandri (Australia)
  4. Caranx
    1. crevalle jack Caranx hippos (Mauritania)
    2. giant trevally (sometimes travelli) Caranx ignobilis (South Africa)
  5. cobia, Rachycentron canadum, of warm waters globally.
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Trio of hapuka, salmon and kingfish each individually prepared and presented on a large platter.
The baitfish tightened into a ball as the kingfish attacked, while several snapper and dory moved in hoping to share the spoils.
Below the wall was a flat plain where we saw kingfish, a large moray eel and a shoal of tuna.
For fishermen preferring finesse to power, the challenge is to catch bonefish, kingfish and the sleek torpedo-shaped bonito on the fly.
The menu board also features Caribbean classics like oxtail stew, red snapper, kingfish and curried goat.
Even when promptly gutted, cleaned, cut into steaks or fillets and then shoved into ice, kingfish is best eaten the day it is caught.

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