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angelfish

noun

Etymology

From angel + fish; so called for its wing-like pectoral fins.

  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 angelfish — “angel + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the genus Pterophyllum of freshwater, tropical cichlids.

  2. Any marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae, common on shallow tropical reefs.

  3. Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Angelshark, of the family Squatinidae.

    2. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).

    3. cave angelfish, a karst-dwelling member of the family Balitoridae, found only in Thailand.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for angelfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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