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LUMPSUCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumpsucker mean? 

LUMPSUCKER (noun)
  The noun LUMPSUCKER has 1 sense:

1. any of several very small lumpfishesplay

  Familiarity information: LUMPSUCKER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LUMPSUCKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several very small lumpfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lumpsucker" is a kind of...):

Cyclopterus lumpus; lumpfish (clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar)


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