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Webster 1913 Edition


Wreckfish

Wreck′fishˊ

,
Noun.
[So called because it often comes in with
wreckage
.]
(Zool.)
A stone bass.

Definition 2024


wreckfish

wreckfish

English

Noun

wreckfish (plural wreckfishes or wreckfish)

  1. A perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.

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