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clownfish

noun
/ˈklaʊnˌfɪʃ/US

Etymology

From clown + 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 clownfish — “clown + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of…

    Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with sea anemones.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clownfish. 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