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cucumberfish

cucumberfish is the alternative form of cucumber fish.

Meaning of cucumber fish

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 cucumberfish

pluralcucumberfish
pluralcucumberfishes

Origin of cucumberfish

From cucumber + fish.

Questions about cucumberfish

What is cucumberfish the alternative form of?
Cucumberfish is the alternative form of cucumber fish.

Words near cucumberfish in the dictionary

  1. cucumber time
  2. cucumber times
  3. cucumber tree
  4. cucumber trees
  5. cucumberade
  6. cucumberfish
  7. cucumberfishes
  8. cucumberish
  9. cucumberita
  10. cucumberitas
  11. cucumberless

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