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oldwife
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun oldwife has 2 senses
- oldwife(n = noun.animal) balistes vetula, bessy cerca, oldwench, queen triggerfish - tropical Atlantic fish; Array is a kind of triggerfish
- oldwife(n = noun.animal) clangula hyemalis, old squaw - a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States; Array is a kind of sea duck
is a member of balistes, genus balistes
is a member of clangula, genus clangula
CIDE DICTIONARY
oldwife, n.
- The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream (
Cantharus lineatus ), the American alewife, etc. [WordNet 1.5] - A tropical Atlantic fish (
Bessy cerca ). [1913 Webster] - A common long-tailed sea duck (
Clangula hyemalis ) of the northern parts of the US; also calledold squaw . [WordNet 1.5]
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