Definition of Kingfishes

1. Noun. (plural of kingfish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kingfishes

1. kingfish [n] - See also: kingfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingfishes

kingdom of glory
kingdome
kingdomed
kingdomes
kingdomless
kingdoms
kinge
kinged
kingella
kingella kingae
kingfish
kingfisher
kingfisher daisy
kingfisherlike
kingfishers
kingfishes (current term)
kinghood
kinghoods
kinging
kingite
kingklip
kingklips
kingle
kingles
kingless
kinglet
kinglets
kinglier
kingliest
kinglihood

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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