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horsefish

horsefish noun: an opah (family Lamprididae).

Noun

horsefish (plural horsefishes or horsefish)

  1. An opah (family Lamprididae).
  2. (archaic) A sauger (Sander canadensis).
  3. A sea horse (Hippocampus spp.).
  4. Any of several species of genus Congiopodus.
    Synonyms:
    pigfish, racehorse
  5. A horseshoe crab (order Xiphosura spp.).

horsefish meaning in Tamil

horsefish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of horsefish

Forms of horsefish

pluralhorsefishes
pluralhorsefish

Origin of horsefish

From horse + fish.

Words formed from horsefish

  • Antarctic horsefish
  • Chereshnev's horsefish
  • smooth horsefish
  • spinenose horsefish
  • spiny horsefish

Questions about horsefish

What does horsefish mean?
Horsefish means an opah (family Lamprididae).
What is horsefish in Tamil?
Horsefish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Horsefish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is horsefish?
Horsefish is a noun.
What is the plural of horsefish?
The plural of horsefish is horsefishes.

Words near horsefish in the dictionary

  1. horsefeather
  2. horsefeathers
  3. horsefeet
  4. Horsefield
  5. Horsefields
  6. horsefish
  7. horsefishes
  8. horseflesh
  9. horseflesh ore
  10. horseflies
  11. horsefly

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