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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the genus Polynemus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family
Polynemidæ . They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called alsothreadfish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
tropical foodfish , of family Polynemidae, that have long filaments below the pectoral fin; thethreadfins
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