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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus: so called in allusion to its dorsal ridge enveloped in tubercular skin, which resembles the comb of the domestic cock. See cut under Cyclopterus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The lumpfish.

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  • noun UK, dialect The lumpfish.

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