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BARRELFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barrelfish mean?
• BARRELFISH (noun)
The noun BARRELFISH has 1 sense:
1. blackish fish of New England waters
Familiarity information: BARRELFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blackish fish of New England waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
barrelfish; black rudderfish; Hyperglyphe perciformis
Hypernyms ("barrelfish" is a kind of...):
butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)
Holonyms ("barrelfish" is a member of...):
genus Hyperoglyphe; Hyperoglyphe (a genus of Stromateidae)
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