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rainbow runner

noun

Definition of rainbow runner

: a large brilliantly colored carangid food and sport fish (Elagatis bipinnulata) that is common in warm seas and is blue or dark green above and yellowish white below

First Known Use of rainbow runner

1937, in the meaning defined above

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