spoutfish

English

Etymology

From spout +‎ fish.

Noun

spoutfish (plural spoutfishes or spoutfish)

1. Any of a number of marine animals that spout water; especially certain bivalve mollusks that squirt out water when retiring into their holes, for example, the thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus).

References

• “spoutfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.