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wrymouth
noun
eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
Syn: ↑ghostfish, ↑Cryptacanthodes maculatus
Hypernyms: ↑blennioid fish, ↑blennioid
Member Holonyms: ↑Cryptacanthodes, ↑genus Cryptacanthodes

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: wry (II) + mouth
: a large eellike blenny (Cryptacanthodes maculatus) of the northern Atlantic coast of No. America

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/ruy"mowth'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) wrymouth, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) wrymouths /-mowdhz'/.
1. any blennioid fish of the family Stichaeidae, having a large, upturned mouth, esp. Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a bottom fish of the Atlantic Ocean.
2. any of several related fishes. Also called ghostfish.
[1645-55; WRY + MOUTH]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.