Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name used for several fishes which inhabit shallow waters, especially Fundulus diaphanus, a small fish of the family Pœciliidæ.
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Examples
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Genoa, this cruise, on a Twillingate schooner, with the first shore-fish.
Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893
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