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clingfish

noun

Etymology

From cling + 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 clingfish — “cling + fish”

Definitions

  1. A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside…

    A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clingfish. 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