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roosterfish

noun

Etymology

From rooster + 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 roosterfish — “rooster + fish”

Definitions

  1. A game fish of species Nematistius pectoralis, sole species of family Nematistiidae,…

    A game fish of species Nematistius pectoralis, sole species of family Nematistiidae, found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru, distinguished by its "rooster comb", seven very long spines of the dorsal fin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for roosterfish. 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