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northern wolffish

northern wolffish noun: a species of wolffish, Anarhichas denticulatus, found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

Noun

northern wolffish (plural northern wolffish)

  1. A species of wolffish, Anarhichas denticulatus, found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.
    • In 2009, Maasak Brower, a Utqiaġvik security guard, caught a northern wolffish just half a dozen miles from town.2018 April 22, Oliver Milman, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    rock turbot

Synonyms of northern wolffish

  • rock turbot

Forms of northern wolffish

pluralnorthern wolffish

Questions about northern wolffish

What does northern wolffish mean?
Northern wolffish means a species of wolffish, Anarhichas denticulatus, found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.
What part of speech is northern wolffish?
Northern wolffish is a noun.
What is the plural of northern wolffish?
The plural of northern wolffish is northern wolffish.

Words near northern wolffish in the dictionary

  1. northern whiting
  2. northern whitings
  3. northern wild rice
  4. northern wiretail
  5. northern wiretails
  6. northern wolffish
  7. northern woodrush
  8. northerner
  9. northerners
  10. northernest
  11. northernisation

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