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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus: so called in allusion to its dorsal ridge enveloped in tubercular skin, which resembles the comb of the domestic cock. See cut under
Cyclopterus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The lumpfish.
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- noun UK, dialect The
lumpfish .
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