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Definition of Squaretail
1. Noun. Sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters.
Definition of Squaretail
1. Noun. A perciform fish of the genus ''Tetragonurus'', found in tropical and subtropical oceans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squaretail
Literary usage of Squaretail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"It is well supplied with squaretail trout, and a species that is known about ...
This is not so stocky a fish as the regular squaretail, being more like the ..."
2. Fish Culture in Ponds and Other Inland Waters by William Edward Meehan (1913)
"... is moving through the water the tails wave and swing.; squaretail: A squaretail
is almost identical with a fringe-tail, but the lower edges of the tails ..."
3. Kin O' Ktaadn: Verse Stories of the Plain Folk who are Keeping Bright the by Holman Francis Day (1904)
"Makes a fellow in the city, as he hears it, think of reels Whirring, purring with
the outrush of a whopping squaretail's bite, And for just one blessed ..."
4. An Old Fly Book and Other Stuff by John Warren Harper (1912)
"... squaretail trout, And from out the page of memory comes a ne'er forgotten day,
Like the grand old top of Spencer o'er the mists of Lilly Bay. ..."
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