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damselfish

/ˈdæmzəlfɪʃ/

damselfish noun: most fish in the Pomacentridae family.

Noun

damselfish (plural damselfishes or damselfish)

  1. Most fish in the Pomacentridae family.

damselfish meaning in Tamil

damselfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of damselfish

pluraldamselfishes
pluraldamselfish

Origin of damselfish

From damsel + fish.

Words formed from damselfish

  • banded damselfish
  • blue damselfish
  • blue green damselfish
  • cocoa damselfish
  • domino damselfish
  • four-stripe damselfish
  • Galapagos damselfish
  • lyretail damselfish
  • pale damselfish
  • sergeant major damselfish
  • striptail damselfish
  • three-stripe damselfish

Questions about damselfish

What does damselfish mean?
Damselfish means most fish in the Pomacentridae family.
What is damselfish in Tamil?
Damselfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Damselfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is damselfish?
Damselfish is a noun.
How do you pronounce damselfish?
Damselfish is pronounced /ˈdæmzəlfɪʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of damselfish?
The plural of damselfish is damselfishes.

Words near damselfish in the dictionary

  1. dams up
  2. damsel
  3. damsel bug
  4. damsel bugs
  5. damsel in distress
  6. damselfish
  7. damselfishes
  8. damselflies
  9. damselfly
  10. damselhood
  11. damsels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: damselfish (page history and authors); damselfish (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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