chiselmouth

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chiselmouth

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From chisel + mouth. Named for the sharp plate on its lower jaw, which the fish uses to scrape algae from rocks.

noun chiselmouths

A fish of species Gila alutacea (formerly Acrocheilus alutaceus) native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. The large black chub (Acrocheilus alutaceus), of the Pacific Coast rivers, is known locally as chiselmouth, squaremouth and hardmouth.
Similar: squaremouth, hard-mouth chub

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@misc{chiselmouth_2026,
  title = {chiselmouth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chiselmouth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}