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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A greenling (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) native to northern Pacific waters and valued as a food fish.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Atka, Island in the central Aleutian Islands.]

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