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cucumber fish

cucumber fish noun: any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.

cucumber fish: any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis
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Noun

cucumber fish (plural cucumber fishes or cucumber fish)

  1. Any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.
  2. Any Australian grayling (Prototroctes maraena).
  3. Any New Zealand smelt (Retropinna retropinna).
  4. Any bivalve pearlfish (Onuxodon margaritiferae).

Forms of cucumber fish

pluralcucumber fishes
pluralcucumber fish

Questions about cucumber fish

What does cucumber fish mean?
Cucumber fish means any fish of the Australian genus Paraulopus, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.
What part of speech is cucumber fish?
Cucumber fish is a noun.
What is the plural of cucumber fish?
The plural of cucumber fish is cucumber fishes.

Words near cucumber fish in the dictionary

  1. cucumarioside
  2. cucumariosides
  3. cucumber
  4. cucumber beetle
  5. cucumber beetles
  6. cucumber fish
  7. cucumber fishes
  8. cucumber herring
  9. cucumber mosaic virus
  10. cucumber mosaic viruses
  11. cucumber mullet

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