Word: bullhead
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...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
...more dedicate and urbane inverted "Holler Codfish Cabot at Harvard" is the unarm life." The slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales, and the codlings "waggle heir tails about," not in the praiseworthy intention of the hymn...