lancefish

English
A lancefish (Ammodytes tobianus)

Etymology

lance +‎ fish

Noun

lancefish (plural lancefishes or lancefish)

  1. A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lancefish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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