blackfish (n.)

  1. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

    [ Syn: tautog , tautoga onitis ]

  2. female salmon that has recently spawned

  3. small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school

    [ Syn: pilot whale , black whale , common blackfish , globicephala melaena ]

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