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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local name in England of the trumpet-fish, Centriscus scolopax.
- noun A local name of sundry plectognath fishes, of the suborder Gymnodontes and family Tetrodontidæ.
- noun A local name in Rhode Island of the angler, Lophius piscatorius. See cut under
angler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A European fish (
Centriscus scolopax ), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called alsotrumpet fish , andsnipe fish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
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