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BATFISH (batfishes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does batfish mean? 

BATFISH (noun)
  The noun BATFISH has 1 sense:

1. bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic finsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BATFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

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

family Ogcocephalidae; Ogcocephalidae (batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes)


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