wrymouth

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Noun Plural

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wry=mouth

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wrymouth has 1 sense

wrymouth(n = noun.animal) cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish - eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth;

is a kind of blennioid, blennioid fish

is a member of cryptacanthodes, genus cryptacanthodes

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wrymouth, n.

Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish. [1913 Webster]