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filefish

filefish noun: any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.

Noun

filefish (countable and uncountable, plural filefishes or filefish)

  1. Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.
    Synonyms:
    foolfish

filefish meaning in Tamil

filefish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of filefish

Forms of filefish

pluralfilefishes
pluralfilefish

Origin of filefish

From file + fish.

Words formed from filefish

Questions about filefish

What does filefish mean?
Filefish means any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.
What is filefish in Tamil?
Filefish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Filefish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is filefish?
Filefish is a noun.
What is the plural of filefish?
The plural of filefish is filefishes.

Words near filefish in the dictionary

  1. filed off
  2. filed off the serial numbers
  3. filed out
  4. filed past
  5. filed with
  6. filefish
  7. filefishes
  8. Filegate
  9. filegroup
  10. filegroups
  11. filehandle

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