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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several ribbonfishes of the genus Trachipterus, especially T. arcticus of the Atlantic Ocean, which can attain a length of 3 meters (9.8 feet).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An English name of the Trachypterus arcticus, a fish of the family Trachypteridæ, from the resemblance of its dead body to a deal. It is found occasionally on the coasts of Orkney and Shetland.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A deep-sea ribbonfish, Trachipterus arcticus, from the north Atlantic

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun deep-sea ribbonfish

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From deal.]

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