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soldierfishes

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sol⋅dier⋅fish

[sohl-jer-fish]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es.
1. any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
2. any of various other brightly colored fishes.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; so called from its sharp spines and rough scales

rainbow darter

–noun
a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
Also called soldierfish.


Origin:
1880–85, Americanism
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