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rat⋅fish

[rat-fish]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es.
a chimaera, Hydrolagus colliei, of the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Lower California, having a ratlike tail.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; rat + fish
rat·fish   (rāt'fĭsh')   
n.   pl. ratfish or rat·fish·es
A fish (Hydrolagus collei) of Pacific waters, having a long narrow tail.

Ratfish

Rat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Rat-tail.
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