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snoek

snoek noun: an edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.

snoek: an edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian...
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Noun

snoek

  1. (South Africa) An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
    • Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf...2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348
    • My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for snoek the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pâté. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek—a...2004, Calvin Trillin, The strange attraction of snoek: The New Yorker, volume 80, page lxxxvi
  2. (South Africa, Natal) The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
  3. (South Africa) Any of several species of barracuda.

snoek meaning in Tamil

snoek in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of snoek

Forms of snoek

alternative formsnook

Origin of snoek

Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun. Doublet of snook and possibly a distant doublet of snake.

Words formed from snoek

Questions about snoek

What does snoek mean?
Snoek means an edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
What is snoek in Tamil?
Snoek in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Snoek meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snoek?
Snoek is a noun.

Words near snoek in the dictionary

  1. Snoddys
  2. Snodgrass
  3. Snodland
  4. snods
  5. snods up
  6. snoek
  7. snoeker
  8. snoekers
  9. snoeking
  10. snoezelen
  11. snoff

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