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brownsnout spookfish

brownsnout spookfish noun: a species of barreleye, Dolichopteryx longipes, with widespread tropical and temperate distribution.

Noun

brownsnout spookfish (plural brownsnout spookfish)

  1. A species of barreleye, Dolichopteryx longipes, with widespread tropical and temperate distribution.
    • The Brownsnout spookfish, which is usually found more than 1,000 metres down beneath tropical-to-temperate waters, looks as if it has four eyes, but there are really just two that are each split into two parts, as if by grotesquely exaggerated bifocal spectacles, with one part looking upward and...2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 107

Forms of brownsnout spookfish

pluralbrownsnout spookfish

Questions about brownsnout spookfish

What does brownsnout spookfish mean?
Brownsnout spookfish means a species of barreleye, Dolichopteryx longipes, with widespread tropical and temperate distribution.
What part of speech is brownsnout spookfish?
Brownsnout spookfish is a noun.
What is the plural of brownsnout spookfish?
The plural of brownsnout spookfish is brownsnout spookfish.

Words near brownsnout spookfish in the dictionary

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  10. brownspars
  11. brownspotted

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