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crestfish

noun

Etymology

From crest + fish, because of the crest (part of the dorsal fin) that emerges from the snout and head.

  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 crestfish — “crest + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.

    • Family Lophotidae — Crestfishes
    • Nothing is known about crestfish ages, spawning habits, or migrations, but a larval specimen less than an inch long was cast ashore at La jolla in December, 1905.
    • This mode of swimming is usually used for slow swimming among fishes, e.g. scabbard and crestfish (Lindsey, 1979).

The neighborhood

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