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convictfish

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con⋅vict⋅fish

  [kon-vikt-fish]
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–noun, plural -fish⋅es, (especially collectively) -fish.
painted greenling.
Origin:
convict + fish, so called from the fancied resemblance of its stripes to a convict's uniform

painted greenling

 
–noun
a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
Also called convictfish.
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