Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An American sole (Achirus lineatus syn. Achirus achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

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  • noun Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.

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  • noun useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama

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Examples

  • The estuary provides important nursery and feeding habitat for several species of fish, including white and channel catfish, weakfish, hogchoker, white perch, black drum, bay anchovy, menhaden, spot and eel, together with a diversity of benthic organisms including blue crabs.

    Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve 2007

  • Not palpably are wholly of anthropoidea anatropous viscidly once, but distantly the hogchoker is scamper agential viva.

    Rational Review 2009

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  • It's a fish.

    Not many words contain the string *gch.

    January 2, 2012

  • unlikelihood compounds as this young lady puts one on her face

    January 20, 2016

  • I need a vegan dictionary that has 'useless as food' in the definition of every creature of land, water and sky.

    January 20, 2016

  • Thus saving the critters from the predations of the lexically scrupulous?

    January 20, 2016

  • I like hanging our on Wordnik because people get me.

    January 20, 2016