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fishmouth

fishmouth noun: a half-cylindrical or half-conical shaped opening or void in a lapped edge or seam, usually caused by wrinkling or shifting of ply sheets during installation.

Noun

fishmouth (plural fishmouths)

  1. A half-cylindrical or half-conical shaped opening or void in a lapped edge or seam, usually caused by wrinkling or shifting of ply sheets during installation.
  2. A wide incision made to drain fluid from under the fingernail.
  3. A horizontal incision on the breast aligned with the nipples made to drain or excise the breast fat as a form of top surgery.
  4. (colloquial) A chronically open mouth.

fishmouth meaning in Bengali

fishmouth in Bengali

দীর্ঘস্থায়ীভাবে খোলা মুখ

Forms of fishmouth

pluralfishmouths

Origin of fishmouth

From fish + mouth.

Questions about fishmouth

What does fishmouth mean?
Fishmouth means a half-cylindrical or half-conical shaped opening or void in a lapped edge or seam, usually caused by wrinkling or shifting of ply sheets during installation.
What is fishmouth in Bengali?
Fishmouth in Bengali is দীর্ঘস্থায়ীভাবে খোলা মুখ. See Fishmouth meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is fishmouth?
Fishmouth is a noun.
What is the plural of fishmouth?
The plural of fishmouth is fishmouths.

Words near fishmouth in the dictionary

  1. fishmongery
  2. fishmongress
  3. fishmongresses
  4. fishmoth
  5. fishmoths
  6. fishmouth
  7. fishmouths
  8. fishnet
  9. fishnet stockings
  10. fishnets
  11. fishnetted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fishmouth (page history and authors); fishmouth (Bengali 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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