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WORM FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does worm fish mean?
• WORM FISH (noun)
The noun WORM FISH has 1 sense:
1. poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
Familiarity information: WORM FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("worm fish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("worm fish" is a member of...):
family Microdesmidae; Microdesmidae (worm fish)
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