bocaccio

bocaccio
/beuh kah"choh, -chee oh', boh-/, n., pl. bocaccios.
a large, brown, big-mouthed rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis, of California coastal waters.
[1885-90; < It boccaccio ugly mouth, equiv. to bocc(a) mouth ( < L bucca) + -accio pejorative suffix, appar. r. an AmerSp fish name of like formation; cf. Sp bocacha big mouth]

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