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Webster 1913 Edition


Doncella

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Don-cel′la

,
Noun.
[Sp., lit., a maid. Cf.
Damsel
.]
(Zool.)
A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (
Platyglossus radiatus
). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (
Harpe rufa
) of the same region.