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Weakfish

Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

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Sea trout 76% connected

Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the…

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Angler noun · 78% connection

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar ap…

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Archer fish unknown · 78% connection

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The na…

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Balloon fish unknown · 78% connection

A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable e…

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Band fish unknown · 78% connection

A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

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Barracuda noun · 78% connection

any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and lo…

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Bellows fish unknown · 78% connection

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish,…

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Bite verb · 78% connection

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fish, genus, cynoscion, squeteague, called.
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Bur fish unknown · 78% connection

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…

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Canker noun · 78% connection

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water…

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Crater noun · 78% connection

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a c…

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Disgorge verb · 78% connection

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fish, genus, cynoscion, squeteague, called.
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Drummer noun · 78% connection

The squeteague.

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Eelpout noun · 78% connection

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. A…

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Embouchure noun · 78% connection

The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

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Fish noun · 78% connection

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…

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Fishlike adjective · 78% connection

Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.

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Fishy adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

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Goldfish noun · 78% connection

A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been i…

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