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clipfish

clipfish is the alternative form of klipfish.

Meaning of klipfish

Noun (1)

klipfish (countable and uncountable, plural klipfishes)

  1. Sun-dried salted cod, especially [Atlantic] cod and especially that exported from Norway.
    • Near-synonym: salt cod (sometimes hypernymous)
    Synonyms:
    salt cod

Noun (2)

klipfish (countable and uncountable, plural klipfishes)

  1. A fish of any of certain genera in the family Clinidae.

Forms of clipfish

pluralclipfishes

Questions about clipfish

What is clipfish the alternative form of?
Clipfish is the alternative form of klipfish.

Words near clipfish in the dictionary

  1. clipcock
  2. clipcocks
  3. clipeated
  4. clipei
  5. clipeus
  6. clipfish
  7. clipjoint
  8. clipjoints
  9. clipless
  10. cliplock
  11. clipmap

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clipfish (page history and authors); klipfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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