Corbina Definition

kôr-bēnə
noun
A food and game fish (Menticirrhus undulatus) of North American Pacific waters and especially coastal California, having a blue-gray body with black pectoral fins and a barbel on the chin.
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Webster's New World
Any of several related marine fishes of the family Sciaenidae.
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Synonyms:
  • Menticirrhus undulatus

Origin of Corbina

  • Spanish corvina, corbina any of various sciaenid fish from feminine of corvino ravenlike (in reference to the black fins of the fish) from Latin corvīnus from corvus raven

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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