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scabbard fish

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scabbard fish
n.
Any of various marine fishes with a long narrow silvery body, especially a cutlass fish (Trichiurus lepturus) of the western Atlantic.

scabbard fish
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various marine spiny-finned fishes of the family Trichiuridae, esp of the genus Lepidopus, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth: most common in warm waters


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At the restored market hall in Lagos, the array of freshly caught seafood is dazzling, from tiny sardines and baby squid to the great snakelike silver scabbard fish or torpedo-sized tuna.
They watch as mighty tuna are sliced into slabs and the local delicacy of scabbard fish - only found in two places in the world - is scraped clean of its hideous black scales.
On very lazy days, when we got no further than the hotel, lunch cost a reasonable E11 (pounds 7) for fresh scabbard fish, or E5.
 
 
 
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