silver scabbard fish

noun

variants or silver scabbardfish

: a silvery eellike fish (Lepidopus caudatus of the family Trichiuridae) of warm seas that has a small, forked caudal fin and is often fished commercially

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1990, in the meaning defined above

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