buffalo fish†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of sucker, Catostomidae, resembling a carp and having a humped back.

Quotations

1810

There was no salmon in this bay, but there are pike, maskonangee and buffaloe fish, which will weigh from five to thirty pounds.

1960

Buffalo fish, native of some waters of the western plains, have a very long dorsal fin with many rays. . . .