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LIZARDFISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lizardfish mean?
• LIZARDFISH (noun)
The noun LIZARDFISH has 1 sense:
1. tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Familiarity information: LIZARDFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
lizardfish; snake-fish; snakefish
Hypernyms ("lizardfish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Holonyms ("lizardfish" is a member of...):
family Synodontidae; Synodontidae (soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes)
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