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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fish of the family Amblyopsidæ that inhabits caves.

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Examples

  • And after a long long time I am finally OK with being cave-fish white.

    ten things hanya27 2005

  • This while ignoring things like pseudo-eyes and blind cave-fish which support the Theory of Evolution and call into question the “creator.” buddha

    SETI vs ID - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • These were mute eons where the secret thing dwelling within her was silent, & grew covered in a wax brought by subterranean bees, fed on the pollen of eyeless cave-fish, moist fungi.

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004

  • He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

    The Age of Innocence 1920

  • He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

    X. Book I 1920

  • He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

    The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899

  • Disused organs cease to exist, as in the eyeless cave-fish.

    Miracles and Supernatural Religion James Morris Whiton 1876

  • The fish were not blind, as cave-fish often are, but were provided with eyes, and belonged to species common in the Nile.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

  • Amblyopsis, a blind cave-fish, effect of conditions on.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • The fish were not blind, as cave-fish often are, but were provided with eyes, and belonged to species common in the Nile.

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

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