rud·der·fish (r d  r-f sh )n. pl. rudderfish or rud·der·fish·es Any of several oval-shaped schooling fishes of the family Kyphosidae, found in tropical parts of the Atlantic and often sighted swimming behind ships. |
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| Noun | 1. |  rudderfish - food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow shipssea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic genus Kyphosus, Kyphosus - type genus of the Kyphosidae |
| 2. |  rudderfish - fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal watersjack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas genus Seriola, Seriola - a genus of Carangidae |
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