tripletail

Definitions of tripletail
  1. noun
    large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
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    types:
    Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis
    tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America
    Lobotes pacificus, Pacific tripletail
    tripletail found in the Pacific
    type of:
    percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
    any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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