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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America;
[syn: tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tautog \Tau*tog"\, n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tauta['u]og.] (Zool.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Tautoga onitis n 1: large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis]