n.
This English name for many fishes is given, in New Zealand, to Labrichthys bothryocosmus,Richards. Called also Poddly, Spotty, and Kelp-fish.
·noun Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The Crenilabrus tinca, a sea-fish, sometimes called old-wife. ...
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