Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chimaera (Hydrolagus colliei) of eastern Pacific waters, having a large head, a long narrow tail, and triangular pectoral fins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A selachian fish, the Chimæra colliæi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
rat-tail .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Pacific fish , Hydrolagus collei, that has a long rat-like tail - noun A
chimaera
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP 2010
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP 2010
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP 2010
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'Ratfish usually hang out in places with soft, muddy bottoms,' says Jon Reum, the aquatic and fishery sciences doctoral student who found the albino ratfish during a UW research project.
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She is now preserved and part of the UW Fish Collection, which has 82 other ratfish specimens, ranging from eggs to full-grown adults.
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After the albino ratfish was caught the researchers attempted to keep her alive in a bucket of water but, in spite of boards placed over the top, she managed to flip out of the bucket onto the deck during the night.
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Dagit, who calls herself the ratfish lady, has written about 15 articles on ratfish for various publications, and shes attended numerous conferences, where she met people who have discovered new species of the fish or are seeking information about it.
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To date, Dagit has named five other species of ratfish.
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'The typical ratfish in Puget Sound is brown or black with a smattering of white spots so it blends in with the sediments.'
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