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sandbar (sh) and yellowtail (iou)


sandbar (sh)




or offshore bar

Submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or coarse sediment that is built by waves offshore from a beach.

The swirling turbulence of waves breaking off a beach excavates a trough in the sandy bottom. Some of this sand is carried forward onto the beach and the rest is deposited on the offshore flank of the trough. Sand suspended in the backwash and in rip currents adds to the bar, as does some sand moving shoreward from deeper water. The bar's top is kept below still-water level by the plunge of the waves breaking over it.


yellowtail (iou)



yellowtail noun & adjective. E17.
[from YELLOW adjective + TAIL noun1.]
A. noun.
An earthworm with a yellow tail. Only in 17.
Any of various marine fishes with a tail that is yellow or has yellow colouring on it; esp. (a) a large carangid game-fish of the genus Seriola (cf. amberjack s.v. AMBER adjective); (b) a trevally or kingfish of the genus Caranx; (c) a small estuarine carangid, Trachurus novaezelandiae, found in Australasian waters; (d) = MADEMOISELLE 4. E18.
A white European moth, Euproctis similis (family Lymantriidae), which has a yellow tip to the abdomen. M18.
A female or an immature male of the American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, marked by yellow patches on the tail. N. Amer. Now rare. L18.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Having a yellow tail. L18.
Special collocations & comb.: yellowtail damselfish, yellowtail demoiselle a tropical Atlantic damselfish, Microspathodon chrysurus, which has a dark body and a contrasting bright yellow tail. yellowtail flounder a right-eye flounder of the NW Atlantic, Limanda ferruginea, which is yellowish with reddish-brown spots and was formerly an important Food fish; also called rusty dab. yellowtail kingfish a large carangid game-fish, Seriola grandis, of Australasian waters. yellowtail rockfish a scorpaenid Food fish, Sebastes flavidus, found off the Pacific coast of N. America. yellowtail scad = sense A.2(c) above. yellowtail snapper a large snapper fish of the tropical Atlantic, Ocyurus chrysurus, which has a yellow lateral stripe merging with a yellow tail, and is a popular Food and game-fish. yellowtail warbler (now rare) = sense A.4 above.