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Webster 1913 Edition


Roundfish

Round′fish

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Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
(b)
A lake whitefish (
Coregonus quadrilateralis
), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

Definition 2024


roundfish

roundfish

English

Noun

roundfish (plural roundfishes or roundfish)

  1. Any fish that is not a flatfish.
  2. Prosopium cylindraceum, the round whitefish.