'Menticirrhus Americanus' definitions:
Definition of 'Menticirrhus americanus'
From: WordNet
noun
Whiting of the southeastern coast of North America [syn: king whiting, Menticirrhus americanus]
Definition of 'Menticirrhus Americanus'
From: GCIDE
- Whiting \Whit"ing\, n. [From White.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Zool.) (a) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin. (b) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake. (c) Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially Menticirrhus Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and {Menticirrhus littoralis}, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish (a), the sailor's choice (b), the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Whiting pollack. (Zool.) Same as Pollack.
- Whiting pout (Zool.), the bib, 2. [1913 Webster]