lumpfish

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LUMP'FISH, noun A thick fish of the genus Cyclopterus. The back is sharp and elevated; the belly flat, and of a crimson color. along the body run five rows of sharp bony tubercles. It swims edgewise; called also a sea-owl.
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