threadfish

English

Etymology

thread +‎ fish

Noun

threadfish (plural threadfishes or threadfish)

  1. The cutlassfish.
  2. A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus or Caranx crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for threadfish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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