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SNAKEFISH

Dictionary entry overview: What does snakefish mean?

• SNAKEFISH (noun)
The noun SNAKEFISH has 1 sense:

1. tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

Familiarity information: SNAKEFISH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SNAKEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish

Hypernyms ("snakefish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("snakefish" is a member of...):

family Synodontidae; Synodontidae (soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes)

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