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MOUTHBREEDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mouthbreeder mean? 

MOUTHBREEDER (noun)
  The noun MOUTHBREEDER has 1 sense:

1. any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouthsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUTHBREEDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)


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