Usually means: Fish known for distinctive sound.
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  7. oldwife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. oldwife: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of old wife (“various types of fish”) [An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.]

Similar:
old squaw, balistes vetula, bessy cerca, clangula hyemalis, oldwench, queen triggerfish, ale-wife, ex wife, grannie, cowife, more...

Types:
crone, hag, beldam, biddy, more...

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Similar:
old squaw, balistes vetula, bessy cerca, clangula hyemalis, oldwench, queen triggerfish, ale-wife, ex wife, grannie, cowife, more...

Types:
crone, hag, beldam, biddy, more...



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