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LIONFISH (lionfishes)
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Irregular inflected form: lionfishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does lionfish mean?
• LIONFISH (noun)
The noun LIONFISH has 1 sense:
1. brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
Familiarity information: LIONFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("lionfish" is a kind of...):
scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)
Holonyms ("lionfish" is a member of...):
genus Pterois; Pterois (lionfishes)
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