grunion

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Feng had officially become a grunion hunter, a distinction as uniquely Californian as the fish she was now holding at eye level.

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  1. noun A small fish (Leuresthes tenuis) of coastal waters of California and Mexico that spawns at night along beaches during the high tides of spring and summer.

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  • : Volunteers (18 and up) willing to spend 2 hours on specific nights monitoring grunion on local beaches!
  • It reminds me of our midnight grunion run while camping last summer and all the fun we had that night catching all those darn fish with our hands.
  • I bellied up to the sandbar; he poured the usual: Rusty Snail, hold the grunion, shaken, not stirred. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The grunion should run to-night too, and I want you to see them. " —  El Diablo
  • If you had a skillet hot on the coals and threw in a handful of grunion you could never have a finer dish. —  El Diablo
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  1. Perhaps from Spanish gruñón, grumbler, from gruñir, to grumble, grunt, from Latin grunnīre, grundīre, to grunt.
 

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