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icefish

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icefish /ˈʌɪsfɪʃ /
noun
(plural icefish or plural icefishes)
1 a scaleless Antarctic fish of pallid appearance with spiny gill covers and a snout shaped like a duck's bill.
Chaenocephalus aceratus, family Chaenichthyidae.
2 another term for capelin
verb [no object] (ice-fish) fish through holes in the ice on a frozen lake or river:
ice-fish for perch.