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Definition of candlefish

candlefish
Beshow Be*show", n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.
Candlefish
Candlefish Can"dle*fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it. (b) The beshow.

Meaning of candlefish from wikipedia

- oolichan /ˈuːlɪkɑːn/, ooligan /ˈuːlɪɡən/, hooligan /ˈhuːlɪɡən/), or the candlefish, is a small anadromous species of smelt that spawns in some of the major...
- Submarine 284 USS Candlefish, thirty years after she disappeared in the Devil's Sea in the Pacific off the Kuriles, toward ****an. The Candlefish surfaces in...
- butterfish (US), black cod (US, UK, Canada), blue cod (UK), bluefish (UK), candlefish (UK), coal cod (UK), snowfish (ปลาหิมะ; Thailand), coalfish (Canada),...
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- literally be burned like a candle; hence its common nickname of the "candlefish". Today, there are numerous recipes and methods of preparing and cooking...
- "Candlefish" or "Eulachon" (Thaleichthys pacificus) art is the first ever do****entation of this species in a Lewis and Clark Expedition journal on February...
- where traces of wax were found. There is a fish called the eulachon or "candlefish", a type of smelt which is found from Oregon to Alaska. Native Americans...
- trail "grease trail" after the eulachon oil (extracted from the tiny candlefish) that was the most important item of trade on the Chilkoot side. Each...
- large number of bony fishes, such as eels, capelin, Pacific cod, pollock, candlefish, herring, mackerel, mullets, cephalopods like squid, octopus, crustaceans...
- in 1968 when s****line alterations affected the water's salinity. The candlefish soon followed in the 1970s. Sea otters were extirpated in the parks at...