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psychedelic frogfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables
psychedelic frog-fish
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of frogfish, Histiophryne psychedelica, with a yellow-brown or peach colour, together with pink and white stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern, living in the waters near Ambon Island and Bali, Indonesia.

Etymology

First described as having "a remarkable pigment pattern of white swirling stripes", hence the use of the term psychedelic.

Inflected Forms

psychedelic frogfishes (plural)

Questions

What does psychedelic frogfish mean?
A species of frogfish, Histiophryne psychedelica, with a yellow-brown or peach colour, together with pink and white stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern, living in the waters near Ambon Island and Bali, Indonesia.
Where does psychedelic frogfish come from?
First described as having "a remarkable pigment pattern of white swirling stripes", hence the use of the term psychedelic.

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