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Definition of Blanquillo
1. Noun. Important marine food fishes.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Branchiostegidae, Family Branchiostegidae
Definition of Blanquillo
1. n. A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.
Definition of Blanquillo
1. Noun. tilefish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Blanquillo
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Blanquillo
Literary usage of Blanquillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Channel Islands of California: A Book for the Angler, Sportsman, and Tourist by Charles Frederick Holder, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1910)
"there is no other way to express it — a blanquillo had it. These fishes ran up
to ten and twelve pounds, and I think some of them must have been ..."
2. Investigations of the Aquatic Resources and Fisheries of Porto Rico by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Barton Warren Evermann, Millard Caleb Marsh, William A. Wilcox (1900)
"blanquillo; Tremba. Head 4 in total length; D. vu, 24; A. i, ... The blanquillo
is related to the tile-fish, and is known only from the coasts of Cuba and ..."
3. History of Mexico / Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1883)
"310-11. a The trigo blanquillo was a species of wheat, chiefly cultivated in the
bishopric of Puebla, of enormous yield, and superior in every respect to ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... well-known “ asper” of Turkish tariffs ; as also “ blanquillo,” the word used
along the coasts of Morocco and Southern Spain for a small Moorish coin. ..."
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