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SHRIMPFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shrimpfish mean?
• SHRIMPFISH (noun)
The noun SHRIMPFISH has 1 sense:
1. slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
Familiarity information: SHRIMPFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
shrimp-fish; shrimpfish
Hypernyms ("shrimpfish" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("shrimpfish" is a member of...):
Centriscidae; family Centriscidae (shrimpfishes)
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