noun the runner, 12.
2. yellowtail ·noun the mademoiselle, or silver perch.
3. yellowtail ·noun the menhaden.
4. yellowtail ·noun the sailor's choice (diplodus rhomboides).
5. yellowtail ·noun a california rockfish (sebastodes flavidus).
6. yellowtail ·noun any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus seriola; especially, the large california species (s. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish;
called also cavasina, and white salmon.