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oilfish

oilfish noun: a snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.

Noun

oilfish (plural oilfishes or oilfish)

  1. A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.

oilfish meaning in Tamil

oilfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of oilfish

pluraloilfishes
pluraloilfish

Origin of oilfish

From oil + fish.

Words formed from oilfish

Questions about oilfish

What does oilfish mean?
Oilfish means a snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.
What is oilfish in Tamil?
Oilfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Oilfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oilfish?
Oilfish is a noun.
What is the plural of oilfish?
The plural of oilfish is oilfishes.

Words near oilfish in the dictionary

  1. oiles
  2. oilfield
  3. oilfielder
  4. oilfielders
  5. oilfields
  6. oilfish
  7. oilfishes
  8. oilgae
  9. Oilgate
  10. oilhouse
  11. oilhouses

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