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elephantfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ele-phant-fish
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.

noun

A plownose chimaera, any fish in the not closely related genus Callorhinchus of cartilaginous fish, which uses its fleshy snout to feel for food in sediments and to sense electric fields.

Etymology

From elephant + fish.

Inflected Forms

elephantfishes (plural)

Questions

What does elephantfish mean?
A fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.
Where does elephantfish come from?
From elephant + fish.

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