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Word: Roughback
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 18th century; earliest use found in John Sinclair (1754–1835), agricultural improver, politician, and codifier of ‘useful knowledge’. From rough + back
Definition:
Any of several flatfishes with rough skins, especially the long rough dab (American plaice), Hippoglossoides platessoides (also "roughback fluke").
