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foxfish

foxfish noun: a fox shark or sea fox.

foxfish: a fox shark or sea fox
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Noun

foxfish (plural foxfish)

  1. A fox shark or sea fox.
  2. A common dragonet (Callionymus lyra), of European waters.
  3. An Australian fish, Bodianus frenchii, and related species.
  4. Certain species in the genus Siganus with distinctive black stripes on the face.

Forms of foxfish

pluralfoxfish

Origin of foxfish

From fox + fish.

Questions about foxfish

What does foxfish mean?
Foxfish means a fox shark or sea fox.
What part of speech is foxfish?
Foxfish is a noun.
What is the plural of foxfish?
The plural of foxfish is foxfish.

Words near foxfish in the dictionary

  1. foxface
  2. foxfaces
  3. Foxfield
  4. foxfire
  5. foxfires
  6. foxfish
  7. Foxford
  8. foxfur
  9. foxfurs
  10. foxgirl
  11. foxgirls

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