jaw fish

jaw·fish

[jaw-fish]
noun, plural (especially collectively) jaw·fish (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) jaw·fish·es.
any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas.

Origin:
jaw1 + fish

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jawfish

noun
small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes 
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Jaw fish is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
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