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driftfish

noun

Etymology

From drift + 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 driftfish — “drift + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the family Nomeidae of perciform fishes found in tropical and subtropical waters…

    Any of the family Nomeidae of perciform fishes found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for driftfish. 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