tau|tog

tau|tog
tau|tog «t TOG, -TG», noun.
a dark-colored food fish, a variety of wrasse, common on the Atlantic coast of the United States; blackfish.
[American English < Algonkian (Narragansett) tautauog sheepsheads, apparently related to taut or tautau sh]

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