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greenfish

[ green-fish ]

noun

plural greenfishes, (especially collectively) greenfish.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of greenfish1

1425–75; late Middle English. See green, fish
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Example Sentences

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But these are very few: "greenfish," "maid," "wife," and "frogfish" perhaps, all of which, however, are well-known in England.

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Those which I know myself, I remember by the names of herring, rock, sturgeon, shad, oldwife, sheepshead, black and red drums, trout, taylor, greenfish, sunfish, bass, chub, plaice, flounder, whiting, fatback, maid, wife, small turtle, crab, oyster, mussel, cockle, shrimp, needlefish, bream, carp, pike, jack, mullet, eel, conger eel, perch, and catfish.

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Got about sixty greenfish and a few other sorts.

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The term "greenfish" is unknown among Virginia Tidewater fishermen.

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There "greenfish" is applied to the bluefish, of which there were and are at times plenty in the Rappahannock river.

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