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sand dabs

sand dabs is the plural of sand dab.

Meaning of sand dab

Noun

sand dab (plural sand dabs)

  1. Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.
    • I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336

Questions about sand dabs

What is sand dabs the plural of?
Sand dabs is the plural of sand dab.

Words near sand dabs in the dictionary

  1. sand cricket
  2. sand crickets
  3. sand crocus
  4. sand culture
  5. sand dab
  6. sand dabs
  7. sand dam
  8. Sand Dancer
  9. Sand Dancers
  10. sand daphne
  11. sand dart

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