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doncella

Pudding fish \Pud"ding fish\, Pudding wife \Pudding wife\ [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish ( Iridio radiatus, syn. Platyglossus radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

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doncella

n. 1 A fish of Florida and the West Indies (''Platyglossus radiatus''). 2 The ladyfish (''Harpe rufa'') of the same region.

Usage examples of "doncella".

Tonight it would lock up with him in a room and perhaps tomorrow no longer doncella would be one.

Algunos pensaban que aquellas doncellas eran entregadas como alimento a algún monstruo a quien veneraban los yagas, pero otros afirmaban que aquellos monstruos sólo tenían un objeto de veneración: ellos mismos.