noun
Meaning 1
Any fish of the genus Lobotes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tripletail
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noun
Meaning 2
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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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, Pacific tripletail, Lobotes pacificus
History
Etymology
From triple + tail.