MAYFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mayfish mean? 

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

1. black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAYFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Fundulus majalis; may fish; mayfish; striped killifish

Hypernyms ("mayfish" 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 ("mayfish" is a member of...):

Fundulus; genus Fundulus (killifish)