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sergeant fish

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ser⋅geant⋅fish

[sahr-juhnt-fish]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es.
1. the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
2. any of various other marine fishes with striped fins.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; sergeant + fish; so called from the striped fins
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co·bi·a   (kō'bē-ə)   
n.  A large food and game fish (Rachycentron canadum) of tropical and subtropical seas. Also called sergeant fish.

[Origin unknown .]
sergeant fish  
n.  
  1. See cobia.

  2. See snook1.

snook 1   (snŏŏk, snōōk)   
n.   pl. snook or snooks
Any of several chiefly marine percoid fishes of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis, a food and game fish of warm Atlantic waters. Also called sergeant fish.

[Dutch snoek, pike, from Middle Dutch snoec.]
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