CUTLASSFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutlassfish mean? 

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

1. long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTLASSFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cutlassfish; frost fish; hairtail

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

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

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

family Trichiuridae; Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)