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knife fish

knife fish is the alternative form of knifefish.

Meaning of knifefish

Noun

knifefish (plural knifefishes or knifefish)

  1. Any of numerous fish with knife-shaped bodies, from several different families.

Forms of knife fish

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Questions about knife fish

What is knife fish the alternative form of?
Knife fish is the alternative form of knifefish.

Words near knife fish in the dictionary

  1. knife ears
  2. knife edge
  3. knife edges
  4. knife fight
  5. knife fights
  6. knife fish
  7. knife game
  8. knife grinder
  9. knife handle
  10. knife handles
  11. knife money

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knife fish (page history and authors); knifefish (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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