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crestfish

crestfish noun: any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.

Noun

crestfish (plural crestfish or crestfishes)

  1. Any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.
    • Family Lophotidae — Crestfishes1956, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum: Biological sciences
    • Nothing is known about crestfish ages, spawning habits, or migrations, but a larval specimen less than an inch long was cast ashore at La jolla in December, 1905.1968, John E. Fitch, Deep-water Teleostean Fishes of California, page 87

crestfish meaning in Tamil

crestfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of crestfish

Forms of crestfish

pluralcrestfish
pluralcrestfishes

Origin of crestfish

From crest + fish, because of the crest (part of the dorsal fin) that emerges from the snout and head.

Words formed from crestfish

  • North Pacific crestfish
  • unicorn crestfish

Questions about crestfish

What does crestfish mean?
Crestfish means any of the fish in the lampriform family Lophotidae.
What is crestfish in Tamil?
Crestfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Crestfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crestfish?
Crestfish is a noun.
What is the plural of crestfish?
The plural of crestfish is crestfish.

Words near crestfish in the dictionary

  1. cresteds
  2. cresteth
  3. crestfallen
  4. crestfallenly
  5. crestfallenness
  6. crestfish
  7. crestfishes
  8. crestie
  9. cresties
  10. crestiform
  11. cresting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crestfish (page history and authors); crestfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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