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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TAUTOG

Tau *tog ", n. Etym: [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis ) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

tautog

tau tog |tôˈtôg, tôˈtäg tɔˈtɔɡ | noun a grayish-olive edible wrasse (fish ) that occurs off the Atlantic coast of North America. [Tautoga onitis, family Labridae. ] ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut .

 

Oxford Dictionary

tautog

tautog |tɔːˈtɒg | noun a greyish-olive edible wrasse (fish ) which occurs off the Atlantic coast of North America. Tautoga onitis, family Labridae. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut .

 

Duden Dictionary

Tautogramm

Tau to gramm Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Tautogr a mm |das Tautogramm; Genitiv: des Tautogramms, Plural: die Tautogramme griechisch-neulateinisch Gedicht, das in allen Wörtern oder Zeilen mit demselben Anfangsbuchstaben beginnt