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1,604 words match “FISH”

s and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

BARRACUDA; BARRACOUTA n. 2 definitions

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.

BARRAMUNDI n. 2 definitions

A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus.

A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

BASIPTERYGIUM n.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

wo back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket…

BASS n. 2 definitions

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.

Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.

BAYAD; BAYATTE n.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

BEARD n. 3 definitions

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

BERING SEA CONTROVERSY n.

ed States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the…

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.

Of or pertaining to the Berycidæ, a family of marine fishes.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

BETHABARA WOOD n.

A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.