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A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.
The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
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a.
Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.
v. i.
To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
n.
A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.
a.
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
v. t.
To swallow up, as in a gulf.
v. t.
To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
a.
Full of whirlpools or gulfs.
n.
A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.
n.
A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
v. t.
To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf.
n.
A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).
n.
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.
n.
Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.
n.
The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
n.
A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia.
a.
Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
n.
A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.
n.
A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.
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