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AMERICAN FLAGFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American flagfish mean? 

AMERICAN FLAGFISH (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN FLAGFISH has 1 sense:

1. a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Floridaplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN FLAGFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN FLAGFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American flagfish; flagfish; Jordanella floridae

Hypernyms ("American flagfish" is a kind of...):

killifish (small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control)

Holonyms ("American flagfish" is a member of...):

genus Jordanella; Jordanella (flagfishes)


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