Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stinging catfish

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: sting-ing -cat-fish
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.

Example Sentences

"Heteropneustes spp., the stinging catfishes of family Heteropneustidae, are distributed in freshwater habitats of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam (Berra, 2007)."

Inflected Forms

stinging catfishes (plural)

Questions

What does stinging catfish mean?: Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.

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