jew·fish

(jo͞o′fĭsh′)

n. pl. jewfish or jew·fish·es

[Probably Jew + fish (so called for unknown reasons).]

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jewfish

(ˈdʒuːˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

1. (Animals) any of various large dark serranid fishes, such as Mycteroperca bonaci, of warm or tropical seas

2. (Animals) Austral any of various marine sciaenid food and game fish, esp the mulloway

3. (Animals) Austral a large food fish of W Australian waters Glaucosama hebraicum

[C17: of uncertain origin]

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jew•fish

(ˈdʒuˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es.

any of several large groupers, esp. Epinephelus itajara, of warm Atlantic seas.

[1690–1700; appar. Jew + fish]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	jewfish - large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre mulloway, Sciaena antarctica sciaenid, sciaenid fish - widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound genus Sciaena, Sciaena - type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakers
	2.	jewfish - large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales Mycteroperca bonaci grouper - usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas genus Mycteroperca, Mycteroperca - groupers

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This grouper (formerly called jewfish), which ranges throughout the west coast of Africa to the west coast of Central America (including the Caribbean), and from Brazil to the United States, is currently recognized by IUCN as critically endangered (Chan Tak-Chuen & Padovani Ferreira 2006).

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We stayed at the old Key Wester out by the airport and toured the Key West Aquarium full of big jewfish (now called goliath groupers), moray eels, barracuda, sergeant majors, queen angels.

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