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SKILLET FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skillet fish mean?
• SKILLET FISH (noun)
The noun SKILLET FISH has 1 sense:
1. clingfish with typical skillet shape
Familiarity information: SKILLET FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clingfish with typical skillet shape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Gobiesox strumosus; skillet fish; skilletfish
Hypernyms ("skillet fish" is a kind of...):
clingfish (very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.)
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