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weedfish

weedfish noun: one of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.

weedfish: one of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and...
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Noun

weedfish (uncountable)

  1. One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
    • In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278
    • They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer.1989, Roland J. Green, The Mountain Walks, New York: Ace, Prologue, page 3

Origin of weedfish

From weed + fish.

Questions about weedfish

What does weedfish mean?
Weedfish means one of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
What part of speech is weedfish?
Weedfish is a noun.

Words near weedfish in the dictionary

  1. weeder course
  2. weeder courses
  3. weederies
  4. weeders
  5. weedery
  6. weedfish
  7. weedful
  8. Weedgie
  9. Weedgies
  10. weedgrown
  11. weedhead

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