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lumpfish

DEFINITIONS OF: lumpfish

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n clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar

Synonyms:
Cyclopterus lumpus
Types:
lumpsucker
any of several very small lumpfishes
Type of:
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
fishes having the head armored with bony plates
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