warmouth

warmouth
/wawr"mowth'/, n., pl. warmouths /-mowdhz', -mowths'/, (esp. collectively) warmouth.
a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis gulosus, of the eastern U.S., having a patch of small teeth on its tongue.
[1880-85, Amer.; orig. uncert.]

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