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noun, plural (especially collectively) black·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) black·fish·es.
1.
any of various dark-colored fishes, as the tautog, Tautoga onitis, or the sea bass, Centropristes striatus.
2.
a small, freshwater food fish, Dallia pectoralis, found in Alaska and Siberia, noted for its ability to survive frozen in ice.
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Blackfish
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| blackfish (ˈblækˌfɪʃ) | |
| —n , pl -fish, -fishes | |
| 1. | a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing |
| 2. | Compare redfish a female salmon that has recently spawned |
| 3. | any of various other dark fishes, esp the luderick, a common edible Australian estuary fish |
| 4. | another name for pilot whale |
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