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haaf fishes

haaf fishes is the plural of haaf fish.

Meaning of haaf fish

Noun

haaf fish (countable and uncountable, plural haaf fish or haaf fishes)

  1. (Scotland, Shetland) The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus).
    • But their most favourite vehicle is the skin of the larger seal or Haaf fish, for as this animal is amphibious they can land on some rock, and there cast off their sea-dress and assume their own shape, and amuse themselves as they will in the upper world.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 265

Questions about haaf fishes

What is haaf fishes the plural of?
Haaf fishes is the plural of haaf fish.

Words near haaf fishes in the dictionary

  1. haad
  2. Haadhoo
  3. Haadhuaa
  4. haaf
  5. haaf fish
  6. haaf fishes
  7. haafu
  8. haafus
  9. Haag
  10. Haag's theorem
  11. Haagoord

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