Beakfish

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.

    "Oplegnathus fasciatus is the striped beakfish; Oplegnathus insignis is the Pacific beakfish."

Example

More examples

"Last April, staff from the Oregon Coast Aquarium rescued more than a dozen yellowtail jacks and one striped beakfish from a half-sunk, fiberglass wreck coated in seaweed. It was the front half of a roughly 15-meter-long commercial fishing vessel."

Etymology

From beak + fish.

Related phrases

striped beakfish

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