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noun
Denticeps clupeoides; a small, silver, clupeiform fish, the sole extant species in the suborder Denticipitoidei, found in rivers adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea in west-central Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Partial calque from translingual and phono-semantic matching of translingual Denticeps clupeoides (literally “herring-like tooth-head”).
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