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squirefish

noun

Etymology

From squire + 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 squirefish — “squire + fish”

Definitions

  1. Chrysophrys auratus, the Australasian snapper, an edible porgy found in the coastal…

    Chrysophrys auratus, the Australasian snapper, an edible porgy found in the coastal waters of Philippines, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for squirefish. 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