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Clumsy soft thick-bodied North Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker
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lumpfish
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar [syn: Cyclopterus lumpus ] [also: lumpfishes (pl)]
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n. lumpsucker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumpfish \Lump"fish`\, n. [From Lump , on account of its bulkiness: cf. G. & D. lump, F. lompe.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish ( Cyclopterus lumpus ) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. ...
Usage examples of lumpfish.
She’s been doing lumpfish processing at the fish plant to fill in—when there’s work—and then scraping along on unemployment insurance.
They’ve made a fucking cockadoodle mess out of it, those twits in Ottawa who don’t know a lumpfish from their own arse.