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n. A colorful fish (Lachnolaimus maximus) of warm Atlantic waters, having a long snout in the adult male.

n. See pigfish.

n. An edible species of wrasse, found around southern Florida

n. The pigfish or sailor's choice.

n. An American freshwater fish, the log perch.

n. A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).

n. A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolæmus).

n. The pigfish or sailor's choice.

n. An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.

n. A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpæna scrofa).

n. A popular name of various fishes.

n. The common porpoise or sea-pig, Phocœna communis.

n. found from Long Island southward

n. large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout

"Every hogfish and lamprey in American waters -- that's a near-fish that sucks the blood of other fish, you know -- should be exterminated just in the same way that the farmers of the country are making away with the Canada thistle."

grunt    wrasse   

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