yellowtail
IPA: jˈɛɫoʊteɪɫ
noun
- Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
- yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
- Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .
- Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
- yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
- yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
- whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
- yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
- A European moth (Euproctis similis)
- A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
- A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
- A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
- A surname from Crow.
adjective
- (in the names of certain organisms) Having a yellow tail.
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