candlefish
Noun. An oily edible fish, ''Thaleichthys pacificus'', from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook indians.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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