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noun
Any of various food fishes, of the family Hexagrammidae, of the northern Pacific
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
food fish of the northern Pacific
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
Narrower terms: kelp greenling, Hexagrammos decagrammus, painted greenling, convict fish, convictfish, Oxylebius pictus
History
From green + -ling.
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