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Lumpfish   Listen
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Lumpfish  n.  (Zool.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.






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Words linked to "Lumpfish" :   genus Cyclopterus, Cyclopterus lumpus, Cyclopterus, scorpaenoid, lumpsucker



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