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nurseryfish

nurseryfish noun: any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.

Noun

nurseryfish (plural nurseryfishes or nurseryfish)

  1. Any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.

nurseryfish meaning in Tamil

nurseryfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of nurseryfish

pluralnurseryfishes
pluralnurseryfish

Origin of nurseryfish

From nursery + fish.

Questions about nurseryfish

What does nurseryfish mean?
Nurseryfish means any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.
What is nurseryfish in Tamil?
Nurseryfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Nurseryfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nurseryfish?
Nurseryfish is a noun.
What is the plural of nurseryfish?
The plural of nurseryfish is nurseryfishes.

Words near nurseryfish in the dictionary

  1. nursery slope
  2. nursery slopes
  3. nursery web spider
  4. nursery web spiders
  5. nurserydom
  6. nurseryfish
  7. nurseryfishes
  8. nurseryful
  9. nurseryfuls
  10. nurserymaid
  11. nurserymaids

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