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nurseryfish

noun

Etymology

From nursery + 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 nurseryfish — “nursery + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding…

    Any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nurseryfish. 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