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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lump·fish n.  Zool. A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Cyclopterus lumpus
      n : clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic
          fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
          [syn: lumpfish]