BATFISH (batfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: batfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does batfish mean? 

• BATFISH (noun)
  The noun BATFISH has 1 sense:

1. bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

  Familiarity information: BATFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("batfish" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Holonyms ("batfish" is a member of...):

family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae (batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes)