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Eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
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wrymouth
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The wrymouth , Cryptacanthodes maculatus , sometimes called ghostfish , is a slim, eel -like creature belongs to the wrymouth family Cryptacanthodidae . It outgrows the blennies, its relatives, and may reach a length of TL A low spiny dorsal fin stands ...
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n. eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth [syn: ghostfish , Cryptacanthodes maculatus ]
Wiktionary
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n. ''Cryptacanthodes maculatus'', a slim, eel-like fish related to the blenny.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrymouth \Wry"mouth`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes , especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish .
Usage examples of wrymouth.
A hundred years before, Boleslaw the Wrymouth, the last king of Poland, had divided the country up among his five sons, giving only nominal authority to the eldest.