Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A common name of a fish of the family Hæmulidæ, Bathystoma rimator, found from Cape Hatteras to Trinidad.

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

  • noun A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma rimator or Hæmulon rimator); also, any of various allied species.

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

  • noun found off the West Indies and Florida

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  • It's a fish.

    January 30, 2013