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hammerfish

hammerfish noun: the hammerhead shark.

Noun

hammerfish

  1. The hammerhead shark.

Origin of hammerfish

From hammer + fish.

Questions about hammerfish

What does hammerfish mean?
Hammerfish means the hammerhead shark.
What part of speech is hammerfish?
Hammerfish is a noun.

Words near hammerfish in the dictionary

  1. hammerest
  2. hammereth
  3. hammerface
  4. hammerfaces
  5. Hammerfest
  6. hammerfish
  7. hammerfist
  8. hammerfists
  9. hammerhead
  10. hammerhead ribozyme
  11. hammerhead ribozymes

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