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threadfish

noun
plural threadfish or threadfishes

Definition of threadfish 

1 : a small compressed deep-bodied carangid fish (Alectis ciliaris) having long filamentous streamers depending from its fins and being nearly cosmopolitan in warm seas

2 : threadfin sense 1

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