spoutfish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
spoutfish (plural spoutfishes or spoutfish)
- Any of a number of marine animals that spout water; especially certain bivalve mollusks that squirt out water when retiring into their holes, for example, the thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus).
References[edit]
- “spoutfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.