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small-mouthed, a.
[small a. 23.]
Having a small mouth; spec. of certain fishes (see later quots.).
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §78 The .ix. propertyes of an asse. The fyrste is to be small-mouthed. 1611Cotgr., Derbro, a kind of small-mouthed..Sea-fish. 1803Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 445 Small-mouthed Sparus, Sparus Microstomus. 1839Yarrell Suppl. Brit. Fishes 36 The Small-mouthed Wrasse, Crenilabrus exoletus. 1882Jordan & Gilbert Syn. Fishes N. Amer. 485 Micropterus dolomiei, Small-mouthed Black Bass. |