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alligator fish

noun

Definition of alligator fish

: a sea poacher (as Podothecus acipenserinus) of the Pacific coast of North America

First Known Use of alligator fish

1882, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for alligator fish

so called from its covering of bony plates

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