🐟 A large sea fish 🍽️ Edible fish meat

dolphinfish

6.3

Lean meat from a sea fish often called mahi-mahi usually cooked and eaten

noun
/ˈdɑl.fɪnˌfɪʃ/

: dorado

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

mahi

vsdolphinfish

9 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

2 7.7

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

refers to the prepared flesh rather than the whole fish

dolphin

vsdolphinfish

1 4.1

A bright fast fish often caught for food in warm seas

refers to the edible meat rather than the live animal

Coryphaena

vsdolphinfish

Specialized

1 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

Coryphaena hippurus

vsdolphinfish

Specialized

1 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

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.