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