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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POLYNEME

n.A fish having a scaly compressed head, with a blunt prominent nose, and pliform appendages to the pectoral fins.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POLYNEME

Pol "y *neme, n. Etym: [Poly- + Gr. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidæ. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.