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THREADFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does threadfish mean?
• THREADFISH (noun)
The noun THREADFISH has 1 sense:
1. fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
Familiarity information: THREADFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Alectis ciliaris; thread-fish; threadfish
Hypernyms ("threadfish" is a kind of...):
jack (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)
Holonyms ("threadfish" is a member of...):
Alectis; genus Alectis (a genus of Carangidae)
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