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footballfish

footballfish noun: any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.

footballfish: any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae
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Noun

footballfish (plural footballfishes)

  1. Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.

footballfish meaning in Tamil

footballfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of footballfish

pluralfootballfishes

Origin of footballfish

From football + fish, from its shape.

Questions about footballfish

What does footballfish mean?
Footballfish means any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.
What is footballfish in Tamil?
Footballfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Footballfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is footballfish?
Footballfish is a noun.
What is the plural of footballfish?
The plural of footballfish is footballfishes.

Words near footballfish in the dictionary

  1. footballed
  2. footballene
  3. footballer
  4. footballers
  5. footballese
  6. footballfish
  7. footballfishes
  8. footballification
  9. footballified
  10. footballifies
  11. footballify

Source and license

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