margate fish

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Noun

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margate fish (plural margate fishes)

  1. A white margate, an edible fish of the west Atlantic.

Usage notes

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A misreading of an early reference caused this name to be wrongly applied to Haemulon aurolineatum, the tomtate, in a few dictionaries and other reference works, but this apparently never made it into actual usage.

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