noun
useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
• Syn: ↑Trinectes maculatus
• Hypernyms: ↑sole
• Member Holonyms: ↑Trinectes, ↑genus Trinectes
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun also hogchoke \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ : a small American sole (especially Achirus fasciatus) of no market value
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/hawg"choh'keuhr, hog"-/, n.
a sole, Trinectes maculatus, found in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and south to Panama.
[1850-55, Amer.; so called to indicate that the fish is worthless, even as food for hogs]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.