SKIPJACK

skipjack, Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda

(noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna

skipjack, skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis

(noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

skipjack (plural skipjacks or skipjack)

Any of several unrelated fish.

Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna.

Katsuwonus pelamis.

The common bluefish

The alewife

The bonito

The butterfish

The cutlass fish

The jurel

The leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)

The runner.

The saurel.

The saury.

The threadfish.

(obsolete) An upstart.

An elaterid; a click beetle.

A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Source: Wiktionary


Skip"jack`, n.

1. An upstart. [Obs.] Ford.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

4. (Naut.)

Definition: A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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