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sucker |
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flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws |
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sucker |
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a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
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sucker |
Noun
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a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) |
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sucker |
Noun
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a shoot arising from a plant's roots |
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segmentation cavity |
Noun
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the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
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siphon |
Noun
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a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled |
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siphon |
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a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube |
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siphon |
Verb
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move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action |
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siphon |
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convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon |
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syphon |
Noun
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a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled |
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syphon |
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a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube |
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syphon |
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convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon |
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sea squirt |
Noun
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ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water |
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salp |
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minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end |
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salpa |
Noun
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minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end |
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spawn |
Noun
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the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs |
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spawn |
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lay spawn |
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spawn |
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call forth |
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striped killifish |
Noun
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black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States |
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stickleback |
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small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship |
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superclass Agnatha |
Noun
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superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys |
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selachian |
Noun
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any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks |
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shark |
Noun
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any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales |
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shark |
Noun
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a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways |
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shark |
Noun
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a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest |
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shark |
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hunt shark |
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shark |
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play the shark |
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sandbar shark |
Noun
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most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states |
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sandbar shark |
Noun
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widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink |
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six-gilled shark |
Noun
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large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas |
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shortfin mako |
Noun
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very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters |
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sawfish |
Noun
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primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout |
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smalltooth sawfish |
Noun
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commonly found in tropical bays and estuaries |
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soupfin shark |
Noun
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Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) |
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stingray |
Noun
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large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds |
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soupfin |
Noun
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Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) |
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soup-fin |
Noun
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Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) |
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sea lamprey |
Noun
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large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food |
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smooth dogfish |
Noun
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small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts |
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smoothhound |
Noun
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smooth dogfish of European coastal waters |
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smoothhound shark |
Noun
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smooth dogfish of European coastal waters |
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spotted eagle ray |
Noun
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ray with back covered with white or yellow spots |
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spotted ray |
Noun
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ray with back covered with white or yellow spots |
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slime eels |
Noun
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eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles |
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spiny dogfish |
Noun
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small bottom-dwelling dogfishes |
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smooth hammerhead |
Noun
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fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver |
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sand tiger |
Noun
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shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic |
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smalleye hammerhead |
Noun
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fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver |
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sand shark |
Noun
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shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic |
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shovelhead |
Noun
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small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head |