giant grenadier

noun

A very large species of rattail fish, Albatrossia pectoralis, found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, and south to northern Baja California in Mexico, with the usual greatly elongated, pointed tail of the rattails.

Meanings

noungiant grenadier (plural giant grenadiers)

plural giant grenadiers

  1. A very large species of rattail fish, Albatrossia pectoralis, found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, and south to northern Baja California in Mexico, with the usual greatly elongated, pointed tail of the rattails.

    Synonyms: giant rattail

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA very large species of rattail fish, Albatrossia pectoralis, found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, and south to northern Baja California in Mexico, with the usual greatly elongated, pointed tail of the rattails.

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