WOLFFISH (wolffishes)

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Irregular inflected form: wolffishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wolffish mean? 

• WOLFFISH (noun)
  The noun WOLFFISH has 2 senses:

1. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

2. large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail

  Familiarity information: WOLFFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLFFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catfish; wolf fish; wolffish

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

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Holonyms ("wolffish" is a member of...):

Anarhichas; genus Anarhichas (type genus of the Anarhichadidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lancet fish; lancetfish; wolffish

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

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("wolffish" is a member of...):

Alepisaurus; genus Alepisaurus (slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes)