1. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
   "We ordered grilled dolphinfish at the beachside restaurant";
   - dolphin, mahimahi
    
2. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)
   "We ordered the grilled dolphinfish with pineapple salsa";
   - mahimahi

Derived forms: dolphinfishes

Type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, saltwater fish

Part of: Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae

Encyclopedia: Dolphinfish