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HOGCHOKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hogchoker mean?
• HOGCHOKER (noun)
The noun HOGCHOKER has 1 sense:
1. useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
Familiarity information: HOGCHOKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
hogchoker; Trinectes maculatus
Hypernyms ("hogchoker" is a kind of...):
sole (right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European)
Holonyms ("hogchoker" is a member of...):
genus Trinectes; Trinectes (a genus of Soleidae)
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