Definition of Cobia

1. Noun. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters.

Exact synonyms: Rachycentron Canadum, Sergeant Fish
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Genus Rachycentron, Rachycentron

Definition of Cobia

1. n. An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

Definition of Cobia

1. a large game fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobia

cobblerfish
cobblerfishes
cobblery
cobbles
cobblestone
cobblestoned
cobblestones
cobblestoning
cobbling
cobbly
cobbs
cobby
cobelligerent
cobelligerents
cobia (current term)
cobias
cobinamide kinase
cobinamide phosphate guanylyltransferase
cobinding
cobindings
cobiron
cobirons
cobirthing
cobishop
cobishops
coble
cobles
cobloaf
cobloaves

Literary usage of Cobia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1859)
"... DANIEL cobia* 1833—1837. DANIEL cobia, a son of Francis and Jane (Lowry) cobia, was born in Charleston, ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The cobia. Body elongate, fusiform, sub- cylindrical, covered with very small, smooth, ... The cobia, or sergeant-fish, is the only fish of its family, ..."

3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"The cobia. Body elongate, fusiform, sub- cylindrical, covered with very small, smooth, ... The cobia, or sergeant-fish, is the only fish of its family, ..."

4. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1859)
"DANIEL cobia, a son of Francis and Jane (Lowry) cobia, was born in Charleston, SC, on the 13th of September, 1811. His paternal grandparents emigrated from ..."

5. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"... CHAPTER VIII THE cobia WITH THE ROD A Splendid Game Fish, trading and Casting from the Reef. Jacks. Their Madness. Finding a Wreck. ..."

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