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HANDSAW FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does handsaw fish mean?
• HANDSAW FISH (noun)
The noun HANDSAW FISH has 1 sense:
1. a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus
Familiarity information: HANDSAW FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("handsaw fish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Holonyms ("handsaw fish" is a member of...):
Alepisaurus; genus Alepisaurus (slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes)
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