What's the difference between lumpfish and lumpsucker?

Lumpfish


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several invertebrates, which are food for lumpfish, were examined for flagellates, but were neither infected nor showed evidence of cystic stages.
  • (2) In nature, lumpfish probably acquire parasites during winter when they aggregate and regurgitate into seawater because parasites can survive for short periods outside their host.
  • (3) Deliciously, some of those who may have sneered at people scarfing down eight burgers for a pound only to find they were horsemeat rather than prime beef, might as well have spent 40 quid a kilo on lumpfish roe rather than the eye-watering £1,280 that King's charge for a kilo of sevruga.
  • (4) Studies were conducted primarily to ascertain the mode of transmission of Cryptobia dahli parasitizing the digestive tract of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus).

Lumpsucker


Definition:

  • (n.) The lumprish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lumpsucker proteinase exhibits low general proteolytic activity but acts effectively on the specific chromogenic peptide substrates.
  • (2) A proteinase has been isolated from the ovarian fluid of the lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus).

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