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Noun

Katsuwonus pelamis

skipjack (plural skipjacks or skipjack)

  1. Any of several not closely related fish.
    1. Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna:
    2. A skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
    3. A common bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
    4. An alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
    5. A bonito (Sarda spp. etc.)
    6. A butterfish
    7. A cutlass fish (Trichiuridae spp.)
    8. A jurel (Caranx or Trachurus)
    9. A leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
    10. A runner (Elagatis pinnulatis)
    11. A saurel (Trachurus spp.)
    12. A saury (Scomberesocidae spp.)
    13. A threadfish (Alectis spp.)
  2. (obsolete) An upstart.
  3. An elaterid; a click beetle.
  4. A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skipjack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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