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Definition of Lumpfish
1. Noun. Clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar.
Generic synonyms: Scorpaenoid, Scorpaenoid Fish
Group relationships: Cyclopterus, Genus Cyclopterus
Specialized synonyms: Lumpsucker
Definition of Lumpfish
1. n. A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
Definition of Lumpfish
1. Noun. lumpsucker ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lumpfish
1. a marine fish [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Lumpfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumpfish
Literary usage of Lumpfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Angling Friends: Being a Second Series of Sketches of Men I Have Fished with by Fred Mather (1901)
""Well, Uncle Thad, that is a lumpsucker or lumpfish. Notice its build. It is so
weak behind that it can't swim much, but see its ventral fins—how they are ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall by Royal Institution of Cornwall (1875)
"(Couch abandons the Coronated lumpfish of the Fauna.) Sea Snail (Liparis Vulgaris).
Eare. Has been taken at Fal- mouth. Also called Butterfish. ..."
3. A Cornish Fauna: Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County by Jonathan Couch, Richard Quiller Couch (1878)
"lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus] Lumpsucker. Not uncommon. The blue fish being the
female, ... (Couch abandons the Coronated lumpfish of the Fauna. ..."
4. Half Hours with Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"The lumpfish, which has a singular sucker on its ventral surface by which it ...
The lumpfish or sucker is called the hen and chickens, as it is often seen ..."
5. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"lumpfish is the generally accepted name of the Americans. lumpfish is evidently
cognate with ... One of the Danish names of the lumpfish. indeed, ..."
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