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roosterfishes

roosterfishes is the plural of roosterfish.

Meaning of roosterfish

Noun

roosterfish (plural roosterfishes or roosterfish)

  1. A game fish of species Nematistius pectoralis, sole species of family Nematistiidae, found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru, distinguished by its "rooster comb", seven very long spines of the dorsal fin.

Questions about roosterfishes

What is roosterfishes the plural of?
Roosterfishes is the plural of roosterfish.

Words near roosterfishes in the dictionary

  1. rooster sauce
  2. rooster sauces
  3. rooster-tail
  4. rooster-tails
  5. roosterfish
  6. roosterfishes
  7. roosterhead
  8. roosterheads
  9. roosterhood
  10. roosterish
  11. roosterless

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