Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ichthyology:
- n. Any fish of the family Cryptacanthodidæ (which see). The common wrymouth is Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a spotless variety of which is the ghost-fish, specified as C. inornalus. It is a blennioid of slender eel-like form, normally profusely spotted, found not very commonly on the Atlantic coast of North America.
- n. The electric ray, torpedo, or numb-fish. See cuts under Torpedinidæ and torpedo.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
Etymologies
- wry + mouth (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They also caught some wrymouth and sculpin off Frenchboro last Friday, he said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wrymouth’.
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It's a Fish
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fish
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wry
Oh wry rie-awry
avowry, chowry, Newry, wryneck, wrying, wrybill, outlawry, inlawry, cowry, ewry, awry, wrythen and 10 more...
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-mouth
I'm a sucker for a suffix, especially one after me own moniker
flannelmouth, cottonmouth, madmouth, foot-in-mouth, bigmouth, Dartmouth, wooly mammouth, badmouth, buttermouth, cross-mouth, fatmouth, flap-mouth and 38 more...
Tweets
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