tripletail

Definitions of tripletail

1. noun

   large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
   types:

   Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis

   tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America

   Lobotes pacificus, Pacific tripletail

   tripletail found in the Pacific

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes