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Dogfish :: Dogfish (n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.

Churl :: Churl (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

Shieling :: Shieling (n.) A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.

Acalephoid :: Acalephoid (a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.

Plectospondyli :: Plectospondyli (n. pl.) An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebrae united and much modified; the Eventognathi.

Bluefin :: Bluefin (n.) A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

Toty :: Toty (n.) A sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the Pacific.

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).

Muraena :: Muraena (n.) A genus of large eels of the family Miraenidae. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous. The murry (Muraena Helenae) of Southern Europe was the muraena of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.

Symplectic :: Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium..

Chondroganoidea :: Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton..

Quillback :: Quillback (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback..

Spadefish :: Spadefish (n.) An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy..

Drum :: Drum (n.) See Drumfish.

Angle :: Angle (n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod..

Parethmoid :: Parethmoid (a.) Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals..

Swineherd :: Swinefish (n.) The wolf fish.

Id :: Id (n.) A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany..

Shad-waiter :: Shad-waiter (n.) A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

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