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yellowtail

noun adjective

Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).

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Word length
10
Starts with
Y
Ends with
L
Contains
EL
Scrabble score
16
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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noun

  1. Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).

  2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata).

  3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:

  4. A European moth (Euproctis similis)

  5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.

  6. The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.

  7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.

adjective

  1. Having a yellow tail.

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