"bait ball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bait balls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bait ball (plural bait balls)
  1. A roughly spherical, very dense school of bait (prey) fish. Categories (topical): Ichthyology

Inflected forms

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