Spoutfish

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spoutfish \Spout"fish`\ (-f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.)
     A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to
     certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams ({Mya}), which
     spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
     [1913 Webster]