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elephantfish

elephantfish noun: a fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.

Noun

elephantfish (plural elephantfish or elephantfishes)

  1. A fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.
  2. A plownose chimaera, any fish in the not closely related genus Callorhinchus of cartilaginous fish, which uses its fleshy snout to feel for food in sediments and to sense electric fields.

elephantfish meaning in Tamil

elephantfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of elephantfish

pluralelephantfish
pluralelephantfishes

Origin of elephantfish

From elephant + fish.

Questions about elephantfish

What does elephantfish mean?
Elephantfish means a fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.
What is elephantfish in Tamil?
Elephantfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Elephantfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is elephantfish?
Elephantfish is a noun.
What is the plural of elephantfish?
The plural of elephantfish is elephantfish.

Words near elephantfish in the dictionary

  1. elephantbirds
  2. elephantdom
  3. elephantesque
  4. elephantess
  5. elephantesses
  6. elephantfish
  7. elephantfishes
  8. elephanthood
  9. elephantiac
  10. elephantiacs
  11. elephantiases

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