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LANTERNFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lanternfish mean?
• LANTERNFISH (noun)
The noun LANTERNFISH has 1 sense:
1. small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
Familiarity information: LANTERNFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("lanternfish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Holonyms ("lanternfish" is a member of...):
family Myctophidae; Myctophidae (deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes)
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