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Definition of Frost fish
1. Noun. Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Family Trichiuridae, Trichiuridae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frost Fish
Literary usage of Frost fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"XLV THE frost fish.—When at Napier, NZ, my good friend Dr. Moore burst in upon me
... No instance on record of a frost fish ever being taken by net or line, ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... vast numbers with the first frost and is hence quite as well known as Frost
Fish ; thus we hear it said: "Here we inet with large schools of frost fish, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"FROST-FISH, a name given to various fishes, because they appear at the time of early
... The frost-fish of New Zealand is one of the scabbard-fishes (qv). ..."
4. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"He says, "Some call them frost-fish, from their coming up from the sea into fresh
brooks in times of frost and snow. ..."
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