Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX'O-GLOSS
EX'O-GLOSS, n. [Gr. εξω and γλωσσα, tongue.]
The popular name of a genus of fishes found in the American seas, whose lower jaw is trilobed, and the middle lobe protruded performs the office of a tongue.
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