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noun - a small food fish
GRUNION - Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardinas. They are sardine-sized te...
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| California fish |
| Heartily regret marriage that's fishy in California |
| Fish served at Greek wedding |
| Small Californian fish which spawns on shore |
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| Dec 7 2015 Canadiana |
| Nov 26 2013 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Aug 18 2013 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Oct 18 2006 The Times - Cryptic |
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| Southern California fish that come ashore to spawn & then run back into the ocean |
| In California this fish spawns on the beach the first few nights after the highest tides of the month |
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| A small fish (Leuresthes tenuis) of coastal waters of California and Mexico that spawns at night along beaches during the high tides of spring and summer. |
| a small, slender Californian fish that swarms on to beaches at night to spawn. The eggs are buried in the sand and the young fish are swept out to sea on the following spring tide. |
| A small, slender Californian fish that swarms on to beaches at night to spawn. The eggs are buried in the sand and the young fish are swept out to sea on the following spring tide. |
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Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardinas. They are sardine-sized teleost fishes of the Atherinopsidae family of New World silversides, found only off the coast of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, where the species are found on both the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California coasts. Many people enjoy catching grunion at events called "grunion runs." * Grunion are known for their unusual mating ritual wherein at very high tides, the females come up on to sandy beaches where they dig their tails into the sand to lay their eggs. The male then wraps himself around the female to deposit his sperm, and for the next 10 days the grunion eggs remain hidden in the sand. At the next set of high tides, the eggs hatch and the young grunion are washed out to sea. * A related species, the false grunion (Colpichthys regis) lives in the Gulf of California. Although the fish looks and acts similarly, it does not have |