mudsucker

noun

1

: any bird that thrusts its bill into mud in search of food (as the woodcock and certain ducks)

2

: a common goby (Gillichthys mirabilis) of muddy bays and sloughs of the southern California and Lower California coast that is much used as a baitfish

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