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Of herring: infested with parasitic worms.
(in oyster farming) designating female-phase larviparous oysters in an early phase of brooding, when the mantle chamber contains newly fertilized…
Of a fish or part of its body: affected with the disease ‘fungus’ (see fungus, n. 5). rare.