SHRIMP-FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrimp-fish mean? 

• SHRIMP-FISH (noun)
  The noun SHRIMP-FISH has 1 sense:

1. slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates

  Familiarity information: SHRIMP-FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRIMP-FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

shrimp-fish; shrimpfish

Hypernyms ("shrimp-fish" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Holonyms ("shrimp-fish" is a member of...):

Centriscidae; family Centriscidae (shrimpfishes)