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Definition of Kingfishes
1. kingfish [n] - See also: kingfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingfishes
Literary usage of Kingfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Where, When, and how to Catch Fish on the East Coast of Florida by William H. Gregg, John Gardner (1902)
"... of not catching Kingfish, which affords the same sport as catching them, and
gives the kingfishes themselves opportunity of joining in the amusement. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... but more widely as kingfishes (qv,). The common whiting (M. americanus) reaches
a length of about a foot ; the body is elongated and slender with a high ..."
3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"They include the rollers, motmots, kingfishes, bee-eaters, hornbills, hoopoes,
oil-birds, frogmouths, goatsuckers, humming-birds, swifts, colics, trogons, ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"The series of photographs of Herons, kingfishes, etc., in recent issues are of
particular interest to ornithologists. The Austral Avian Record.2 Vol. ..."
5. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In America, catfish, sunfish, and pike prey upon its eggs or its young, as well
as water-snakes, turtles, kingfishes, crayfishes, and many other creatures ..."
6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... and more especially in the South, several species of Menticirrhus, a. genus of
Sci<enid<z, are known as whiting, but more widely as kingfishes (qv). ..."
7. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1882)
"The kingfishes do not appear during each season in equal numbers. A few years
ago they were to be found entering the bays and inlets towards the mouth of ..."
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