Definition of Mudfishes

1. mudfish [n] - See also: mudfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mudfishes

muddles
muddles through
muddlier
muddliest
muddling
muddling through
muddlingly
muddly
muddy the waters
muddy up
muddying
mudejar
mudejares
mudfish
mudfishes (current term)
mudflap
mudflaps
mudflat
mudflats
mudflow
mudflows
mudge
mudged
mudger
mudgers
mudges
mudging
mudguard
mudguards

Literary usage of Mudfishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"On the next expedition, in 1899, he visited the Gambia River, where another genus, Protopterus, of the same group of mudfishes is found. ..."

2. Science and Hebrew Tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"... or mudfishes, that they have been reckoned as distinct orders, the Devonian strata present us with forms of which it is impossible to say with certainty ..."

3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"Unless we take the view, which is possible, that the swim-bladder of fishes was originally a lung, the mudfishes are learning to breathe dry air. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"On the next expedition, in 1899, he visited the Gambia River, where another genus, Protopterus, of the same group of mudfishes is found. ..."

5. Science and Hebrew Tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"... or mudfishes, that they have been reckoned as distinct orders, the Devonian strata present us with forms of which it is impossible to say with certainty ..."

6. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"Unless we take the view, which is possible, that the swim-bladder of fishes was originally a lung, the mudfishes are learning to breathe dry air. ..."

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