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alligatorfish

noun

Etymology

From alligator + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as alligatorfish — “alligator + fish”

Definitions

  1. a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae,…

    a bottom-dwelling marine fish of species Aspidophoroides monopterygius, family Agonidae, which is found along the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA