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pudding wife
CIDE DICTIONARY
pudding wife, [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.].
A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio radiatus , syn. Platyglossus radiatus ) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano , doncella , and, at Bermuda, bluefish . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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