kingfish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
  2. noun large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
    cero; Scomberomorus regalis; pintado.
  3. noun small silvery marine food fish found off California
    white croaker; chenfish; Genyonemus lineatus.
  4. noun any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
  5. noun large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
    Seriola grandis.

WordNet

King"fish` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb. (b) The opah. (c) The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero. (d) The queenfish.

Webster 1913