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JAWFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jawfish mean?
• JAWFISH (noun)
The noun JAWFISH has 1 sense:
1. small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
Familiarity information: JAWFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("jawfish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("jawfish" is a member of...):
family Opisthognathidae; Opisthognathidae (jawfishes)
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