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quillfish

noun

Etymology

From quill + 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 quillfish — “quill + fish”

Definitions

  1. Ptilichthys goodei, a long, eel-like perciform fish native to the north Pacific Ocean.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quillfish. 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