KINGFISH

kingfish, Seriola grandis

(noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand

kingfish

(noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast

cero, pintado, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis

(noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

kingfish

(noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

kingfish (plural kingfishes or kingfish)

Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker

Other Atlantic fish

opah Lampris guttatus (United Kingdom)

white croaker Genyonemus lineatus (United Kingdom)

wahoo Acanthocybium solandri (Barbados)

king mackerel Scomberomorus cavalla

Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.

narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus commerson (Australia)

Japanese meagre Argyrosomus japonicus (Australia)

yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand)

silver gemfish Rexea solandri (Australia)

Caranx

crevalle jack Caranx hippos (Mauritania)

giant trevally (sometimes travelli) Caranx ignobilis (South Africa)

The cobia, Rachycentron canadum, of warm waters globally.

Source: Wiktionary

King"fish`, n. (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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition