mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus
(noun) silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mummichog (plural mummichogs)
A hardy killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in brackish and coastal waters of the United States and Canada.
• (Fundulus heteroclitus): mummi, mummie, gudgeon, mud minnow
Source: Wiktionary
Mum"mi*chog, n. Etym: [Amer. Indian name.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 November 2024
(noun) a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; “consider the following, just as a hypothetical”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
