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Definition of Corbina
1. Noun. Bluish-grey whiting of California coast.
Definition of Corbina
1. a food and game fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corbina
Literary usage of Corbina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1905)
"A surf fish, real old corbina (as his name is commonly misspelled) lays hold upon
your sand crab a bit differently. With him it is a gentle nibble, ..."
2. Temperate Chile: A Progressive Spain by William Anderson Smith (1899)
"Fish are plentiful and cheap comparatively, a large corbina being bought for less
than a dollar (is. 6d.), as large as a good cod, while the robalo, ..."
3. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"1 Camarones. * The proper English equivalents for these names in the original
are hard to find. The corbina was a black fish and the name is found in both ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"... of Di«corbina globularis, d'Orb. with (at least) 6 nuclei and a central chamber
9 /* in diameter as ..."
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