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ratfish

ratfish noun: a fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.

Noun

ratfish (plural ratfishes or ratfish)

  1. A fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.
    1. A Pacific fish, Hydrolagus colliei, that has a long rat-like tail
  2. A chimaera

ratfish meaning in Tamil

ratfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of ratfish

pluralratfishes
pluralratfish

Origin of ratfish

From rat + fish.

Questions about ratfish

What does ratfish mean?
Ratfish means a fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.
What is ratfish in Tamil?
Ratfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Ratfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ratfish?
Ratfish is a noun.
What is the plural of ratfish?
The plural of ratfish is ratfishes.

Words near ratfish in the dictionary

  1. ratfaces
  2. ratfink
  3. ratfinked
  4. ratfinking
  5. ratfinks
  6. ratfish
  7. ratfishes
  8. ratfolk
  9. Ratfor
  10. ratfuck
  11. ratfucked

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