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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A common name of a scorpænoid fish, Sebastes kuhlii, of Madeira.
  • noun The blue darter or rainbow-darter, Etheostoma cæruleum, of gorgeous colors, the male having about twelve indigo-blue bars running obliquely downward and backward, and being otherwise vividly colored. It is abundant in rivers of the Mississippi valley.

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  • noun the larger squirrelfishes

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