Dictionary entry

Pudding fish

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Pud″ding fish, Pudding wife }. [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zoöl.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.