Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae.

    Seewolf

    полоса́тая зуба́ткаpolosátaja zubátka, зуба́ткаzubátka

More definitions
  • large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
  • large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The wolffish can't actually bite into stone.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Origin

From wolf + fish.

From wolf + fish.

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Forms

plural: wolffishes / wolffish

Synonyms

7 synonyms
swineswinefishswine-fish
Close in meaning
  • large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins:wolf fishcatfish
  • large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail:lancetfishlancet fish

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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