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harvest fish

noun

Definition of harvest fish 

: any of various butterfishes of the family Stromateidae: such as

a : a small marine fish (Peprilus paru) having a narrow deep body and being found along the Atlantic coast of America from Brazil to Cape Cod

b : dollarfish sense 1

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