[f. BLUE a. + FISH.]

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  a.  A fish, a species of Coryphæna, found about the Bahamas and on the coast of Cuba. b. (See quot.)

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1734.  Mortimer, in Phil. Trans., XXXVIII. 318.

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1782.  P. H. Bruce, Mem., XII. 424. The sea hereabouts [Bahamas, etc.] abounds with fish unknown to us in Europe … parrot-fish, blue-fish, sucking-fish, [etc.].

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1848–60.  Bartlett, Dict. Amer., Blue-Fish (Temnodon saltator), a salt-water fish of the mackerel order, but larger in size.

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1873.  Echo, 11 March, 2/2. Large quantities of halibut, bass, blue fish, flounders, and weak fish are also caught.

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1880.  Günther, Fishes, 447. ‘Blue-fish,’ being highly esteemed as food, and furnishing excellent sport.

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