sand dab

See also: sanddab

English

Speckled sanddab

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Noun

sand dab (plural sand dabs)

  1. Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.
    • 2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336:
      I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.
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