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CORNETFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cornetfish mean?
• CORNETFISH (noun)
The noun CORNETFISH has 1 sense:
1. slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales
Familiarity information: CORNETFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cornetfish" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("cornetfish" is a member of...):
Fistularia; genus Fistularia (type genus of the family Fistulariidae)
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