Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whitish variety of Cryptacanthodes maculatus. See
wrymouth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wrymouth , Cryptacanthodes maculatus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
Etymologies
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ghost + fish, from its pale colour.
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Examples
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Certainly the angel-fish is not so well named as the parrot-fish; it might better be called the ghostfish, it is so like a moonbeam in the pools it haunts, and of such a convertible quality with the iridescent vegetable growths about it.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Certainly the angel-fish is not so well named as the parrot-fish; it might better be called the ghostfish, it is so like a moonbeam in the pools it haunts, and of such a convertible quality with the iridescent vegetable growths about it.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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