Scabbard Fish

Lepidopus caudatus. “1. A fish of the family Lepidopodidae, Lepidopus caudatus,of the Mediterranean and Atlantic shores of Europe, as well as of New Zealand, of a bright silvery color, with a long dorsal and rudimentary anal fin: so called from suggesting by its form the sheath of a sword. Also called a scale fish and a frost fish.” —Whitney, 1889

Keywords

sword, sea, fish, scale, New Zealand, ocean, sheath, swim, mediterranean, europe, long, atlantic, scabbard, skinny, frost, frost-fish, scale-fish, thin

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Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5365

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