Definition of Bermuda chub

1. Noun. Food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships.

Exact synonyms: Kyphosus Sectatrix, Rudderfish
Generic synonyms: Sea Chub
Group relationships: Genus Kyphosus, Kyphosus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bermuda Chub

Berlin doughnut
Berlin green
Berlin greens
Berliner
Berliners
Berlinese
Berlioz
Berlitz
Berlusconi
Berlusconian
Bermuda
Bermuda-shorts
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda cedar
Bermuda chub (current term)
Bermuda dollar
Bermuda green
Bermuda lily
Bermuda maidenhair
Bermuda maidenhair fern
Bermuda onion
Bermuda plan
Bermuda rig
Bermuda seam
Bermuda shorts
Bermudan
Bermudan option
Bermudan options

Literary usage of Bermuda chub

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

1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The Bermuda chub. Body ovate, somewhat compressed; head 3!; depth 2j; scales 10-55-16; D. XI, 12; A. IIl, 11; head short, with blunt snout; mouth small, ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"The Bermuda chub. Body ovate, somewhat compressed; head 3f; depth 2}; scales 10-55-16; D. XI, 12; A. III, 1 1 ; head short, with blunt snout; mouth small, ..."

3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... and straying north to Cape Cod and even to the Canaries and Palermo. It is known as the rudder-fish, Bermuda chub, chub, and chopa blanca. ..."

4. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"The Catches On the reef you'll find snapper, grouper, little tunny, Bermuda chub (left), and yellowtail (below right), to mention only a few. ..."

5. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"... (Linnaeus) (Bermuda chub). The " rudder-fish," " chub," or " chopa blanca," as it is variously called, occurs in the open ocean from the West Indies ..."

6. Bermuda by Don Philpott, George Watkins (2002)
"... catches are yellowtail snapper, greater amberjack, almaco jack, great barracuda, little tunny, gray snapper, yellow tail snapper and Bermuda chub. ..."

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