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🐟 A large sea fish 🍽️ Edible fish meat
dolphinfish

dolphinfish

6.3
Lean meat from a sea fish often called mahi-mahi usually cooked and eaten
  • noun
  • /ˈdɑl.fɪnˌfɪʃ/
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  • Fresh dolphinfish is often grilled or baked in Hawaiian cuisine.

Examples

  • The chef recommended the dolphinfish fillet, served with tropical salsa.

  • They caught a large dolphinfish during their deep-sea fishing trip.

  • I love to eat dolphinfish tacos on the beach.

  • Have you ever tried dolphinfish sushi?

  • Fresh dolphinfish is often grilled or baked in Hawaiian cuisine.

  • The chef recommended the dolphinfish fillet, served with tropical salsa.

  • Have you ever tried dolphinfish sushi made with fresh ingredients?

Synonyms

dolphin
vsdolphinfish
  • US
9 4.1

A bright fast fish often caught for food in warm seas

refers to the edible meat rather than the live animal
mahi
vsdolphinfish
5 6.4

A large bright fish that lives in warm seas and is called dolphinfish

refers to the edible flesh not the living animal
mahimahi
vsdolphinfish
  • US
1 7.7

A large, slim sea fish often cooked and eaten in Hawaii

refers to the prepared flesh rather than the whole fish
Coryphaena hippurus
vsdolphinfish
  • Specialized
9.5

A large, brightly colored fish found in warm seas, often called mahi-mahi and eaten as food

refers specifically to the edible flesh rather than the whole living animal
Coryphaena
vsdolphinfish
  • Specialized
9.9

A large, fast fish with bright colors that lives in warm seas and is often called mahi-mahi or dolphinfish

refers to the meat from those fish rather than the taxonomic group

Surface Forms

dolphinfish singular
dolphinfishes plural

Morphology

dolphinfish = dolphin + fish (semi-transparent) = dolphin + fish

Same compound structure as the species name; the culinary sense refers to the flesh of that species, so the compound is partly transparent but refers to a specific fish rather than implying any relation to dolphins.

Etymology

Dolphinfish is also used for the edible meat of that fish, keeping the same name because fishers and cooks know the animal as a dolphin-like swimmer and by the Hawaiian name mahi-mahi ('very strong'), which helps explain why its firm flesh is popular to eat.