LUMPFISH (lumpfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: lumpfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumpfish mean? 

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

1. clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMPFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cyclopterus lumpus; lumpfish

Hypernyms ("lumpfish" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lumpfish"):

lumpsucker (any of several very small lumpfishes)

Holonyms ("lumpfish" is a member of...):

Cyclopterus; genus Cyclopterus (type genus of the Cyclopteridae: lumpfishes)