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Any of several small freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, especially C. gobio, found in Europe and North America and having a large spiny head and spiny fins.

[From its stocky, thumblike shape (the phrase miller's thumb was originally a folk expression referring to millers who gave short weight by tipping the scales with their thumbs).]

miller's thumb

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several small freshwater European fishes of the genus Cottus, esp C. gobio, having a flattened body: family Cottidae (bullheads, etc.)

[from the alleged likeness of the fish's head to a thumb]

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