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butterflyfish

noun

Etymology

From butterfly + fish, from their bright colours.

  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 butterflyfish — “butterfly + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae

    Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for butterflyfish. 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