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cabezon noun A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. callop noun an Australian freshwater fish, Macquaria ambigua; the golden perch or yellowbelly cardinal tetra noun a freshwater fish, of the family Characidae, native to rivers in South America, popular as an aquarium fish carp noun (plural: or carps) Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. verb To complain about a fault; to harp on. catadromous adjective (wikipedia, fish migration) (context, of a migratory fish) that lives in fresh water and breeds in the sea catfish noun (pl=catfish, pl2=catfishes) Any fish of the order Siluriformes, that are mainly found in freshwater, have no scales and with barbels like whiskers around the mouth. caudal fin noun The tail fin of a fish and other aquatic vertebrates. Chimaera noun (greekmyth): Fantastical monster in Lycea with the head of a lion, goat and serpent which vomited fire. Killed by the hero Bellerophon. Chinook proper noun (uncountable) A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington. chub noun A species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family. chum noun A friend; a pal. I ran into an old from school the other day. A roommate. 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN01002996&id=N_dFtyzEqFsC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=chum&as_brr=1 :Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry. = verb (chum, m, ed) To make friends with; to socialize. 1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=171546995&textreg=1&query=chummed&id=ConDark :"I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised -- on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose. This was the foreman -- a boiler-maker by trade -- a good worker... 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=362005073&tag=Hornung,+Ernest+William:+The+Amateur+Cracksman,+1902&query=chummed&id=HorAmat :"You'll make yourself disliked on board!" :"By von Heumann merely." :"But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?" :"The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge." To room together. 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00501560&id=qTQ1ql-_PGIC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=chummed&as_brr=1 :Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years. cichlid noun (plural cichlids) Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish. cisco noun Any North American freshwater fish of the genus Coregonus or Leucichthys that live in cold water lakes clingfish noun (plural or clingfishes) A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed. coalfish noun any of several blackish fish, especially the pollack or sablefish cockscomb noun The fleshy red crest of a rooster A red cap once worn by court jesters An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers (archaic) A conceited dandy (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed codfish noun (countable and uncountable; plural ) (countable) A cod (the fish). (uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food. coelacanth noun A species of deep-water fish of the Indian ocean, Latimeria chalumnae, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years. coho noun An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Onchorynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean. It is used as a symbol by several Native American tribes coney noun A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus). cracker noun A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. A firecracker. A person or thing that crack, cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). A Christmas cracker Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker (chiefly, UK) A fine thing or person (crackerjack). She's an absolute ! The show was a ! (computing) A person who cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions to enable unrestricted use or for malicious purpose. crappie noun (crappie) A member of either of two related North American sunfish species. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish. cycloid noun (plural cycloids) (geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line. (zoology) A fish having cycloid scales. adjective resemble, Resembling a circle; cycloidal. (zoology) (of fish scales) Thin and rounded, with smooth edges. cyclostome noun any of various primitive jawless fish, of the class Petromyzontida, such as the lamprey or hagfish

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