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sea-adder

sea-adder is the alternative form of sea adder.

Meaning of sea adder

Noun

sea adder (plural sea adders)

  1. A European fifteen-spined stickleback, a fish of species Spinachia spinachia (syn. Gasterosteus spinachia).
  2. A tanglefish, or greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
  3. (obsolete) A sea serpent.

Forms of sea-adder

pluralsea-adders

Questions about sea-adder

What is sea-adder the alternative form of?
Sea-adder is the alternative form of sea adder.

Words near sea-adder in the dictionary

  1. sea woodlice
  2. sea woodlouse
  3. sea worm
  4. sea worms
  5. sea wormwood
  6. sea-adder
  7. sea-adders
  8. sea-anemone
  9. sea-anemones
  10. sea-angel
  11. sea-angels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea-adder (page history and authors); sea adder (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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