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quillback

noun

Etymology

From quill + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as quillback — “quill + back”

Definitions

  1. Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that…

    Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA