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  • 71oldwench — noun tropical Atlantic fish • Syn: ↑queen triggerfish, ↑Bessy cerca, ↑oldwife, ↑Balistes vetula • Hypernyms: ↑triggerfish • Member Holonyms: ↑Balistes, ↑ …

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  • 72sea duck — noun any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser • Hypernyms: ↑duck • Hyponyms: ↑eider, ↑eider duck, ↑scoter, ↑scooter, ↑old squaw, ↑ …

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  • 73triggerfish — noun any of numerous compressed deep bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin • Hypernyms: ↑plectognath, ↑plectognath fish • Hyponyms: ↑queen triggerfish, ↑Bessy cerca, ↑oldwench, ↑oldwife, ↑ …

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  • 74galafate — ˌgaləˈfä(ˌ)tā noun ( s) Etymology: American Spanish (Cuba) : a black oldwife (Melichthys piceus) of the western Atlantic from the West Indies to Brazil …

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  • 75old-squaw — ˈ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun : a common sea duck (Clangula hyemalis) of the more northern parts of the northern hemisphere of which the adult male is marked with sharply contrasted black and white and has the middle tail feathers very long and slender and the …

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