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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 king·fish /ˈkɪŋˌfɪʃ/
 食用魚一種;企業家

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 King·fish n. Zool. (a) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb. (b) The opah. (c) The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero. (d) The queenfish.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 kingfish
      n 1: the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the
           Atlantic coast of the United States
      2: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
         Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus
          regalis]
      3: small silvery marine food fish found off California [syn: white
          croaker, chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus]
      4: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family
         indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American
         coast
      5: large game fish of Australia and New Zealand [syn: Seriola
          grandis]
      [also: kingfishes (pl)]