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leaffish

leaffish noun: a small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.

leaffish: a small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae
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Noun

leaffish (plural leaffishes or leaffish)

  1. A small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.
  2. An Asian leaffish, of family Nandidae
  3. Taenianotus triacanthus (leaf scorpionfish), of the family Scorpaenidae.

leaffish meaning in Tamil

leaffish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of leaffish

pluralleaffishes
pluralleaffish

Origin of leaffish

From leaf + fish.

Words formed from leaffish

Questions about leaffish

What does leaffish mean?
Leaffish means a small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.
What is leaffish in Tamil?
Leaffish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Leaffish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is leaffish?
Leaffish is a noun.
What is the plural of leaffish?
The plural of leaffish is leaffishes.

Words near leaffish in the dictionary

  1. leafery
  2. leafet
  3. leafets
  4. leaffall
  5. leaffalls
  6. leaffish
  7. leaffishes
  8. leafflower
  9. leafflowers
  10. leaffolder
  11. leaffolders

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