sablefish

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sablefish

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Etymology tree
English sable
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English sablefish

    From sable + fish.

    Noun

    sablefish (plural sablefishes or sablefish)

    1. A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.
      Synonyms: skil, beshow, coalfish, black cod, butterfish
      • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 October 2025:
        Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

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