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Oldwife

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Noun

1. balistes vetula, bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, queen triggerfish

tropical Atlantic fish

2. clangula hyemalis, old squaw, oldwife

a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Oldwife

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noun plural -wives
1.  another name for old squaw
2. 
any of various fishes, esp the menhaden or the alewife

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Oldwife

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nounWord forms: plural ˈoldˌwives (ˈoʊldˌwaɪvz ; ōldˈwīvzˌ)
1.  Archaic
an old woman
2.  US
oldsquaw
3. 
any of various sea fishes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Oldwife

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n. pl. old·wives (-wīvz′)
1. See long-tailed duck.
2. Any of various fishes such as the alewife and the menhaden.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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