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rabbitfish

noun

Etymology

From rabbit + fish, from its mouth shape.

  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 rabbitfish — “rabbit + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any fish in the family Siganidae, native to shallow Indo-Pacific coastal waters and…

    Any fish in the family Siganidae, native to shallow Indo-Pacific coastal waters and introduced to the eastern Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

  2. Any fish in the family Chimaeridae, cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rabbitfish. 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