halcyon vs kingfish

halcyon

noun
  • A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. 

  • The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam. 

  • A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves. 

adj
  • Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher. 

  • Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene. 

kingfish

noun
  • silver gemfish, Rexea solandri (Australia) 

  • yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand) 

  • white croaker, Genyonemus lineatus (United Kingdom) 

  • crevalle jack, Caranx hippos (Mauritania) 

  • king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla 

  • The cobia, Rachycentron canadum, of warm waters globally. 

  • Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker 

  • opah, Lampris guttatus (United Kingdom) 

  • giant trevally (sometimes travelli) Caranx ignobilis (South Africa) 

  • narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson (Australia) 

  • wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Barbados) 

  • Japanese meagre, Argyrosomus japonicus (Australia) 

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