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  • yellow tail
    n. a fish, Ocyurus chrysurus: 1918 He went to a drop where he hook a fine yellow-tail (Parsons 126). YELLOW-TAIL
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  • yellow stingray
    n. a fish, Urolophus jamaicensis: 1968 (Böhlke 31). (Black)
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  • yellow sponge
    [DAB idem 1877→; cf. YALLER 2] n. a yellow or brownish short-fibered commercial sponge, Spongia officinalis barbara: 1836 A specimen
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  • yellow popper
    n. a tree, the yellow elder (Tecoma stans): 1889 (Gardner 397). = TRUMPET FLOWER (Exuma, Inagua)
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  • yellow nicker (tree)
    [DJE idem ; from its seeds] n. a tree, Guilandina bonduc or Caesalpina bonduc: 1889 (Gardner 375). = RED NICKER
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  • yellow-mouth grunt
    (Gen.); yellow grunt (Andros) n. a fish, Haemulon sp.
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  • yellow-mouth grouper
    (Black); yellow grouper (Andros, Adelaide) n, a fish, Mycteroperca inter-stitialis: 1968 (Bohlke 284).
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  • yellow jack
    [DJE idem] n. a fish, Caranx bartholomeai: 1905 (Shattuck 302). (Gen.)
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  • yellow grits
    [ cf. YALLER 2] n. coarsely-ground guinea-corn meal.= GUINEA-CORN GRITS, ISLAND GRITS, NATIVE GRITS, RED GRITS (Nassau)
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  • yellow folk
    [cf. YALLER 3] n. 1. light-skinned mulattoes: Yellow folk are people who are more white than colored (Grand Bah.). (Black)
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