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Definition of Tautog
1. Noun. Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
Generic synonyms: Wrasse
Group relationships: Genus Tautoga, Tautoga
Definition of Tautog
1. n. An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
Definition of Tautog
1. Noun. A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tautog
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tautog
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautog
Literary usage of Tautog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"Among those to which most attention has been given are tautog, Spanish mackerel,
pollock, and haddock. Others that have come in for a share of either ..."
2. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"The tautog bites like the sheepshead, but with less power. ... I mean now a
tide-running tautog of from three to eight pounds, which feeds on the edge of ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The tautog reaches a maximum length of 3 feet, though those usually seen are ...
As a food-fish the tautog is well known and of considerable importance, ..."
4. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"I mean now a tide-running tautog of from three to eight pounds, ... The tautog
which feeds close to the base of the rocks is an adept at getting hooks or ..."
5. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"THE tautog. The Black-Fish of New York.—tautoga Americana; DeKay. ... The tautog
ranges only from the capes of the Chesapeake to Massachusetts Bay. ..."
6. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1851)
"The tautog was not originally known in Massachusetts Bay ; but within a few years
he has been carried beyond Cape Cod, and has multiplied so abundantly, ..."
7. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England by Robert Carter (1864)
"While the seamen were getting dinner we took the dory and went first to the island
to gather crabs for bait, as we intended to fish for tautog. ..."
8. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1907)
"East of New York it is commonly called the "tautog." On the New York coast it is
known as "blackfish," and further south as the "oyster fish." Tilefish. ..."
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