hog-sucker

hog sucker

noun
any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
Also called hogmolly.


Origin:
1880–85, Americanism

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hog sucker

noun
widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams 
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