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green⋅fish

[green-fish]
–noun, plural -fish⋅es, (especially collectively) -fish.
opaleye.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME. See green, fish

o⋅pal⋅eye

[oh-puhl-ahy]
–noun, plural -eyes, (especially collectively) -eye.
a green game fish, Girella nigricans, common off rocky shores from California southward, having opalescent blue eyes.
Also called greenfish.


Origin:
opal + eye
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