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mayfishes

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may⋅fish

  [mey-fish]
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–noun, plural -fish⋅es, (especially collectively) -fish.
striped killifish.
Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; May + fish

striped killifish

 
–noun
a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
Also called mayfish.
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