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miller's-thumb

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mill⋅er's-thumb

[mil-erz-thuhm]
–noun
any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME milneres thume; the fish is so called from its thumblike head
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