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viperfish

noun

Etymology

From viper + 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 viperfish — “viper + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the genus Chauliodus of deepwater fishes, fierce predators with long, needle-like…

    Any of the genus Chauliodus of deepwater fishes, fierce predators with long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws, found mainly in tropical and temperate waters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for viperfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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