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frost-fish

frost-fish is the alternative form of frostfish.

Meaning of frostfish

Noun

frostfish (plural frostfishes or frostfish)

  1. Microgadus proximus
    Synonyms:
    Pacific tomcod
  2. Microgadus tomcod
    Synonyms:
    Atlantic tomcod
  3. Any member of the genus Benthodesmus cutlassfish
  4. (US, dialectal, obsolete) A smelt.
  5. (New Zealand) A scabbardfish.
    • Another species of the renowned “frost fish,” but unlike the ordinary frost fish, it is of much greater length in proportion to depth. It well deserves its proper cognomen of the scabbard fish, its silver skin adding to the resemblance.1886, Robert Caldwell Reid, Rambles on the Golden Coast of New Zealand, Chapter 20

Forms of frost-fish

pluralfrost-fishes
pluralfrost-fish

Questions about frost-fish

What is frost-fish the alternative form of?
Frost-fish is the alternative form of frostfish.

Words near frost-fish in the dictionary

  1. frost weathering
  2. frost wedging
  3. frost-bearer
  4. frost-bearers
  5. frost-blite
  6. frost-fish
  7. frost-nail
  8. frost-nails
  9. frost-proof
  10. frost-root
  11. frost-stache

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frost-fish (page history and authors); frostfish (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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