CLINGFISH (clingfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: clingfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does clingfish mean? 

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

1. very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINGFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clingfish"):

Gobiesox strumosus; skillet fish; skilletfish (clingfish with typical skillet shape)

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

family Gobiesocidae; Gobiesocidae (clingfishes)