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combfish

noun

Etymology

From comb + 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 combfish — “comb + fish”

Definitions

  1. A comb wrasse, an Australasian wrasse (Coris picta), having a comb-like stripe.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for combfish. 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