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midshipman

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midshipman: see toadfish toadfish, common name for the sluggish, bottom-feeding fishes of the genus Opsanus, found in the shallow waters from New Jersey to the Caribbean. Toadfishes feed almost entirely on crustaceans and small fishes.
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midshipman
any of several American toadfishes of the genus Porichthys, having small light-producing organs on the undersurface of their bodies


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"They have arrived, lieutenant," exclaimed a young midshipman, "and they are doing what all travelers do when they arrive in a new country, taking a walk
It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not.
M'Donald had kept up the excitement during the voyage, so that not a midshipman but revelled in dreams of ample prize- money, nor a lieutenant that would have sold his chance for a thousand pounds.
 
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