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sheathfish

sheathfish is the alternative form of sheatfish.

Meaning of sheatfish

Noun

sheatfish (plural sheatfishes or sheatfish)

  1. A wels catfish (Silurus glanis), the largest freshwater fish in Europe.
  2. Any catfish of genus Silurus.
  3. Wallago species, found in the Danube and other Eastern European rivers
  4. Micronema species
  5. Phalacronotus species

Forms of sheathfish

pluralsheathfishes

Origin of sheathfish

From sheath + fish, possibly influenced by German Schaid (“sheatfish”).

Questions about sheathfish

What is sheathfish the alternative form of?
Sheathfish is the alternative form of sheatfish.

Words near sheathfish in the dictionary

  1. sheathers
  2. sheathes
  3. sheathes the sword
  4. sheathest
  5. sheatheth
  6. sheathfish
  7. sheathfishes
  8. sheathing
  9. sheathing the sword
  10. sheathings
  11. sheathless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheathfish (page history and authors); sheatfish (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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