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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of lizard-fish, as Synodus fœtens or S. myops.
  • noun The red band-fish, Cepola rubescens: more fully called red snake-fish. See Cepolidæ.
  • noun The oar-fish. See cut under Regalecus.
  • noun A fish, Polypterus senegalus, which lives in rivers of Africa and has many peculiar characters: well represented in former times, but only two genera belonging to one family remain. The fossil forms are now arranged in five families.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The band fish.
  • noun The lizard fish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the several fish that resemble a snake.
  • noun Trachinocephalus myops

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
  • noun tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

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