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hairyfish

hairyfish noun: mirapinna esau, a fish in the family Cetomimidae with unusual fins resembling thorns or hairs.

hairyfish: mirapinna esau, a fish in the family Cetomimidae with unusual fins resembling thorns or hairs
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Noun

hairyfish (plural hairyfishes or hairyfish)

  1. Mirapinna esau, a fish in the family Cetomimidae with unusual fins resembling thorns or hairs.

hairyfish meaning in Tamil

hairyfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of hairyfish

pluralhairyfishes
pluralhairyfish

Origin of hairyfish

From hairy + fish.

Questions about hairyfish

What does hairyfish mean?
Hairyfish means mirapinna esau, a fish in the family Cetomimidae with unusual fins resembling thorns or hairs.
What is hairyfish in Tamil?
Hairyfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Hairyfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hairyfish?
Hairyfish is a noun.
What is the plural of hairyfish?
The plural of hairyfish is hairyfishes.

Words near hairyfish in the dictionary

  1. hairy-soled conyrats
  2. hairy-tailed mole
  3. hairy-tailed moles
  4. hairyback
  5. hairybacks
  6. hairyfish
  7. hairyfishes
  8. hairyness
  9. hairytail mole
  10. hairytail moles
  11. HAIs

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