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STONEFISH (stonefishes)
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Irregular inflected form: stonefishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does stonefish mean?
• STONEFISH (noun)
The noun STONEFISH has 1 sense:
1. venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock
Familiarity information: STONEFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
stonefish; Synanceja verrucosa
Hypernyms ("stonefish" 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 ("stonefish" is a member of...):
genus Synanceja; Synanceja (stonefishes)
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