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a grumpy bowling ball that glued itself to a rock and called it survival.
means A round, sluggish North Atlantic fish whose belly has a sucker-like disc for clinging to rocks, prized chiefly for its roe sold as imitation caviar.
from A plain compound of "lump" — the blobby, swollen shape of the thing — plus "fish." "Lump" entered English from a Low German or Scandinavian source meaning a shapeless mass; the same root sits behind the fish's older European names, like German "Lump" or "Lumpfisch." So the name is exactly what it sounds like: the fish that looks like a lump.
- suction grip
- Belly fins fuse into a disc clamping onto rocks.
- caviar swap
- Its dyed roe fakes luxury sturgeon caviar cheaply.
- dad duty
- Males guard the eggs and fan them for weeks.
- cleaner gig
- Farmed to pick lice off salmon underwater.
- jelly body
- Up to 80 percent of its mass is water.
lumpfish farming scotland — used to control sea lice in atlantic salmon farms since the 1990s, particularly in norway and scotland
cyclopterus lumpus — the atlantic lumpfish species, native to the north atlantic, harvested for biological pest control in aquaculture