TRIPLE-TAIL

Definition: TRIPLE-TAIL

TRIPLE-TAIL

Noun

1. An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Plate 175. The Triple-Tail or Black Grouper. Lobotes surinamensis (Bl.), Cuvier. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Chinese 

三倍尾巴. (various references)

Korean 

3배 꼬리. (various references)

Pig Latin

iple-tailtray

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tripletail.

-2 letters: literati, reptilia, triplite.

-3 letters: literal, littler, pallier, partite, partlet, perilla, plaiter, platier, platter, prattle, tallier, tertial, tillite, triplet.

-4 letters: aplite, attire, illite, latter, litter, little, palier, pallet, palter, patter, pattie, pillar, pirate, pitier, plater, ratite, rattle, retail, retial, rillet, tailer, taille, taller, tallit, telial, tiller, tilter, triple.

-5 letters: alert, alter, apter, ariel, artel, atilt.

+1 letter: tripletails.

+3 letters: multiparticle.

+4 letters: interpellating, interpellation, streptobacilli.

+5 letters: interpellations, multipolarities, peripatetically.