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weak·fish (wēk′fis̸h′)

noun pl. weakfish -·fish′, weakfishes -·fish′es

any of various edible, marine drum fishes (genus Cynoscion), esp. a species (C. regalis) that lives in the waters along the E coast of the U.S.

Etymology: < obs. Du weekvisch < week, soft (akin to weak) + visch, fish

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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