spikedace

spikedace
/spuyk"days'/, n., pl. spikedaces, (esp. collectively) spikedace.
a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
[SPIKE1 + DACE]

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