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houndfish

houndfish noun: tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.

Noun

houndfish (plural houndfishes or houndfish)

  1. Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
    Synonyms:
    crocodile needlefish, hound needlefish
  2. A small European shark (Scyliorhinus canicula), small-spotted dogfish.

houndfish meaning in Tamil

houndfish in Tamil

houndfish
பசுங்கோலா pacuṅkōlā

Synonyms of houndfish

  • crocodile needlefish
  • hound needlefish

Forms of houndfish

pluralhoundfishes
pluralhoundfish

Origin of houndfish

From hound + fish.

Questions about houndfish

What does houndfish mean?
Houndfish means tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
What is houndfish in Tamil?
Houndfish in Tamil is பசுங்கோலா (pacuṅkōlā). See Houndfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is houndfish?
Houndfish is a noun.
What is the plural of houndfish?
The plural of houndfish is houndfishes.

Words near houndfish in the dictionary

  1. hounder
  2. hounders
  3. houndes
  4. houndest
  5. houndeth
  6. houndfish
  7. houndfishes
  8. hounding
  9. hounding down
  10. houndings
  11. houndish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: houndfish (page history and authors); பசுங்கோலா (Tamil) (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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