fishes: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of fishes
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lungfish
- noun air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
- noun air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
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hagfish
- noun eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
slime eels; hag.
- noun eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
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flatfish
- noun sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
- noun any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
- noun sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
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angelfish
- noun a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
- noun deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
Chaetodipterus faber; spadefish.
- noun a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
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rockfish
- noun the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
- noun marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- noun the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
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catfish
- noun flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
mudcat.
- noun large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
wolf fish; wolffish.
- noun flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
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crayfish
- noun warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
rock lobster; spiny lobster; langouste.
- noun tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
crawfish; ecrevisse; crawdad.
- noun warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
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sunfish
- noun the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
- noun among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
mola; headfish; ocean sunfish.
- noun the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
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damselfish
- noun small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
demoiselle.
- noun small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
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parrotfish
- noun gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
pollyfish; polly fish.
- noun gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
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surgeonfish
- noun brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
- noun brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
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butterflyfish
- noun tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
flying gurnard; flying robin.
- noun tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
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starfish
- noun echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
sea star.
- noun echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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jellyfish
- noun large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
Portuguese man-of-war; man-of-war.
- noun any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
- noun large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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