Etymology
Origin of devilfish
Example Sentences
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Trapping wild devilfish could support modest demand, he says, but to scale up, they might ultimately need to be farmed—carefully.
From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2022
A devilfish painted by Georg Forster in the 1770s.Credit:
From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018
Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife.
From Time Magazine Archive
The projected Boulder Dam would protect the Imperial Valley, which is below sealevel, from catastrophic extremes of flood and drought, the Colorado's "devilfish" tendencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
During this time, I made myself another dress, but most of the days I spent fashioning a spear to catch the giant devilfish.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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