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prowfish

prowfish noun: a species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.

Noun

prowfish (plural prowfishes or prowfish)

  1. A species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.
  2. An Australian prowfish (any fish of the family Pataecidae, characterized by a long dorsal fin that begins far forward on the head, forming a "prow" shape, and extends all the way to the caudal fin).

prowfish meaning in Tamil

prowfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of prowfish

pluralprowfishes
pluralprowfish

Origin of prowfish

From prow + fish.

Phrases with prowfish

Questions about prowfish

What does prowfish mean?
Prowfish means a species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.
What is prowfish in Tamil?
Prowfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Prowfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prowfish?
Prowfish is a noun.
What is the plural of prowfish?
The plural of prowfish is prowfishes.

Words near prowfish in the dictionary

  1. prowess
  2. prowessed
  3. prowesses
  4. prowest
  5. prowestern
  6. prowfish
  7. prowfishes
  8. prowhaling
  9. prowhite
  10. prowhiteness
  11. prowl

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