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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 fins
Familiarity information: BATFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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