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owlfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
owl-fish
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of deep-sea smelt, Pseudobathylagus milleri.

Etymology

From owl + fish, after its large eyes.

Inflected Forms

owlfishes (plural)

Questions

What does owlfish mean?
A species of deep-sea smelt, Pseudobathylagus milleri.
Where does owlfish come from?
From owl + fish, after its large eyes.

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